The 24th Alaska State Legislature served during 2005 and 2006. 9 members of the Alaska Senate were elected on November 5,2002. The remaining senators and all members of the Alaska House of Representatives were elected on November 2,2004.
The Nevada Senate is the upper house of the Nevada Legislature,the state legislature of U.S. state of Nevada,the lower house being the Nevada Assembly. It currently (2012–2021) consists of 21 members from single-member districts. In the previous redistricting (2002–2011) there were 19 districts,two of which were multimember. Since 2012,there have been 21 districts,each formed by combining two neighboring state assembly districts. Each State Senator represented approximately 128,598 as of the 2010 United States Census. Article Four of the Constitution of Nevada sets that State Senators serve staggered four-year terms.
Kim Steven Elton is a journalist,commercial fisherman,government official and Democratic politician in the U.S. state of Alaska. Elton represented Juneau in the Alaska House of Representatives for two terms,from 1995 to 1999. In 1998,he was elected to the Alaska Senate,serving until his resignation in early 2009 to accept appointment as director of Alaska Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Interior by President Barack Obama. Prior to holding elected office,Elton was executive director of the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute and a salmon troller engaged in commercial fishing.
Dennis William Egan was an American politician who was a member of the Alaska Senate representing Juneau from April 19,2009,until January 15,2019. A member of the Democratic Party,he previously served as the Mayor of Juneau from February 13,1995,to October 3,2000,and was a member of the local assembly prior to that. Outside of politics,he was known for his work as a radio broadcaster,most notably for KINY,and was inducted to the Alaskan Broadcaster Association's Hall of Fame in 2001.
Bettye Jean Davis was an American social worker and politician. She was the first African-American to be elected as an Alaska State Senator in 2000.
Lyda N. Green is a retired educator and Republican politician in the U.S. state of Alaska. Green,as a political newcomer,was elected to the Alaska Senate in 1994,defeating a 22-year Democratic incumbent in a district representing most of the population of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. Two Democratic members of the Alaska House of Representatives,also from the Matanuska-Susitna Valley,were defeated in the same election. Green served a total of fourteen years in the Senate and was its president in her final two years in office.
Scott Jiu Wo Kawasaki is an American healthcare professional and politician from Alaska. A Democrat,he is a member of the Alaska Senate representing the state's District A,which includes neighborhoods within the city limits of Fairbanks.
LeAnna M. Washington is an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 4th district from 2005 to 2014. She served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives,District 200 from 1993 to 2005. She resigned in 2014 after being charged with a felony for using campaign staff and state resources to plan her birthday party fundraiser.
Jalmar Martin "Jay" Kerttula was an American businessman,farmer,and politician in Alaska. A member of the Democratic Party,Kerttula was the longest-serving member of the Alaska Legislature,having served in the House from 1961 to 1963 and 1965 to 1973 and in the Senate from 1973 to 1995. In January 2019,Lyman Hoffman became the longest-serving member in the history of the Alaska Legislature,surpassing Kerttula's tenure.
Catherine Norah "Cathy" Muñoz is an American politician who was a Republican member of the Alaska House of Representatives,who from 2009 to 2017 represented the 34th District. She served as Co-Chair of the Community and Regional Affairs Committee,Vice-Chair of the Education Committee,and served two terms on the House Finance Committee. She served as Co-Chair of the Community &Regional Affairs Committee and Vice-Chair of the Education Committee. Muñoz has been a small business owner since 1988. She was appointed by Governor Michael J. Dunleavy in 2018 to serve as the Deputy Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Muñoz was a third-generation member of the Alaska Legislature. Her father served in the Alaska House and Senate,her grandfather as the mayor of Douglas,Alaska and in the Territorial and State Senates,and her grandmother served in the Territorial House.
Nancy Dahlstrom is an American politician who is serving as the 15th lieutenant governor of Alaska,since December 2022. She previously served as a Republican member of the Alaska House of Representatives,representing the 18th and 13th districts. She was appointed to the House at the beginning of the legislative session in 2003 when the representative-elect,Lisa Murkowski,was appointed to her father's U.S. Senate seat. Dahlstrom resigned her House seat to take a position in the administration of Governor Sean Parnell,then resigned from that position after less than a month when constitutional issues arose.
Shirley J. McKague was an American politician from Idaho. She was an Idaho State Senator,representing the 20th District as a Republican from 2007 to 2012. She previously served as an Idaho State Representative for Districts 14B and 20B from 1997 until her appointment to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator Gerry Sweet.
The Fifth Alaska State Legislature served from January 23,1967,to January 26,1969.
Mary Edna González is an American politician who serves as state representative of House District 75 in the Texas House of Representatives. She is a member of the Democratic Party who was elected in November 2012 to represent an area that includes eastern El Paso County,parts of the city of El Paso and the towns of Socorro,Clint,Fabens,Horizon City,San Elizario and Tornillo. She is also the first openly pansexual elected official in the United States.
Patrice M. Arent was a Democratic member of the Utah State House,representing the state's 36th house district through 2020.
Sam Kito III is an American politician from Alaska. A Democrat,he served in the Alaska House of Representatives as one of two representatives from Juneau since his appointment in 2014 until 2019.
Louise Ball Stutes is an American politician from Alaska. A Republican,Stutes is a member of the Alaska House of Representatives,representing House District 32 on Kodiak Island since 2015,and has served as Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives since 2021.
Elizabeth Maher Muoio is an American Democratic Party politician who serves as the Treasurer of New Jersey. Previously,she had been a member of the New Jersey General Assembly,the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature,representing the 15th Legislative District from 2015 to 2018. She had also served as a councilwoman from the borough of Pennington and a Mercer County Freeholder.
Joanna E. McClinton is an American politician from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. A member of the Democratic Party,she serves in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives,representing the 191st House district in Delaware County and Philadelphia,Pennsylvania since 2015. In November 2020,she was elected to serve as the House Democratic Leader.
Verlina Reynolds-Jackson is an American Democratic Party politician who represents the 15th Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly. Previously a member of the Trenton City Council,Reynolds-Jackson was sworn into office on February 15,2018,to succeed Elizabeth Maher Muoio,who left office after being nominated to serve as Treasurer of New Jersey.
