Assistant Majority Leader, Minnesota State Senate, 2023-present

Senator, Minnesota State Senate, District 64, 2021-present

Former Majority Leader, Minnesota State House of Representatives

Former Assistant Majority Leader, Minnesota State House of Representatives

Former Assistant Minority Leader, Minnesota State House of Representatives

Candidate, Minnesota State Senate, District 64, 2022

Representative, Minnesota State House of Representatives, District 64A, 2006-2019

Candidate, Governor of Minnesota, 2018

Deputy Minority Leader, Minnesota State House of Representatives, 2015-2016

Ranking Minority Member, Agriculture and Rural Development Finance and Policy Committee

Member, Finance Committee

Member, Higher Education Committee

Member, Legislative Commission on Pensions and Retirement

Member, Property Taxes Subcommittee

Member, Redistricting Committee

Member, Rules and Administration

Chair, State and Local Government and Veterans

Former Member, Education Finance Committee, Minnesota State House of Representatives

Former Ranking Minority Member, Health and Human Services Finance Committee, Minnesota State House of Representatives

Former Member, Health and Human Services Reform Committee, Minnesota State House of Representatives

Former Member, Legacy Funding Finance Committee, Minnesota State House of Representatives

Former Member, MNsure Legislative Oversight Committee, Minnesota State House of Representatives

Former Member, Rules and Legislative Administration Committee, Minnesota State House of Representatives

Former Member, Ways and Means Committee, Minnesota State House of Representatives

Adjunct Faculty, Doctor of Nursing Practice, Saint Catherine University, 2010-present

Community Relations Director, Minnesota Department of Children, Families and Learning

Organizer, Minnesota Nurses Association

Adjunct Professor, Saint Catherine's University

Operating Room Nurse, University of Minnesota Hospital

Executive Director, Minnesota Nurses Association, 2001-2007

Legislative Director, Minnesota Attorney General Hubert Humphrey III, 1997-1999

Lobbyist, Minnesota Nurses Association, 1990-1997

Member, Board of Trustees, American Nurses Association Political Action Committee

Executive Board Member, Minnesota Chapter, American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations

Co-Chair, Steering Committee, Cover All Kids

Member, Board of Directors, Citizens for a Safer Minnesota, 1999-2001

Director, Saint Paul Democrat Farmer Labor Party, 2001

Awards:

Humphrey Policy Fellow
University of Minnesota
Darden Policy Fellow
University of Virginia
Sigma Theta Tau
Zeta Chapter
Legislator of the Year
Politics in Minnesota
2010
"One to Watch"
Politics in Minnesota
2012
Courage Award
Project 515 Dibble and Clark