Karen Parfitt Hughes is the global vice chair of the public relations firm Burson-Marsteller. She served as the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs in the U.S. Department of State and as a counsellor to President George W. Bush.
The Washington State Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of Washington,headquartered in Seattle. It is also commonly referred to as the Washington State Democrats and the Washington Democratic Party. It is currently the dominant party in the state,controlling the majority of Washington's U.S. House seats,both U.S. Senate seats,both houses of the state legislature,and the governorship.
The Washington State Senate is the upper house of the Washington State Legislature. The body consists of 49 members,each representing a district with a population of nearly 160,000. The State Senate meets at the Legislative Building in Olympia.
Karen Riese Fraser is an American politician who served as a Democratic Washington State Senator for 24 years,representing the 22nd Legislative District,which includes Olympia,Lacey,Tumwater,and northern Thurston County. She held many senior leadership positions in the Senate including:Democratic Caucus Chair;Vice Chair of the Ways and Means Committee;Chair of the Capital Budget;chair of the Senate's administrative committee;and chair of policy committees pertaining to environment,energy,water,parks and recreation,shorelines,Puget Sound,and state employee pensions. She served on the Rules Committee and on many other policy committees. She was a leader in state level international relations.
Timothy Markham Sheldon is an American farmer,businessman,and politician who served as a member of the Washington State Senate,representing the 35th District between 1997 and 2023. The district includes all of Mason County and parts of Thurston and Kitsap counties. A member of the Democratic Party,Sheldon caucused with the Republican-dominated Majority Coalition Caucus and afterwards the Republican Caucus from 2012. He previously represented Mason County as a Mason County Commissioner for District 2 from 2005 to 2017 and served as a member of the Washington House of Representatives from 1991 to 1997.
Ballot Initiative 937 is a clean energy initiative passed in the US state of Washington,appearing on the ballot in the November 2006 elections. It passed with 52 percent of the vote.
Duane Sand is an American businessman and politician. He is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy,and was a U.S. Navy officer during the Iraq War. Sand ran for the United States Senate in North Dakota on the Republican ticket in 2000 against incumbent Kent Conrad of the Democratic-Nonpartisan League,and was called for duty after the election in 2001. Upon returning,he ran for North Dakota's lone House seat in 2004 and 2008,but failed both times to defeat incumbent Earl Pomeroy. In August 2011,Sand announced his bid to become the 2012 Republican nominee for the same Senate seat he ran for 11 years prior. He lost the Republican nomination to Representative Rick Berg. Sand previously served as the North and South Dakota Director for Americans for Prosperity,a conservative political advocacy group.
Walter Allen Stosch is an American politician in the Republican Party. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1983 until 1992,when he was elected to the Senate of Virginia. He was Majority leader 1998–2007,after which he was named Republican Leader Emeritus. He served as the President Pro Tempore of the Senate for his final term,except for a six-month period when Democrats controlled the chamber. He represented the 12th district,made up of parts of Hanover and Henrico Counties. In 2009,responding to the request of constituent Em Bowles Locker Alsop,Stosch sponsored a monument to Virginia women in Capitol Square,which became law in 2010,and was unveiled in October 2018.
George Williford Boyce Haley was an American attorney,diplomat and policy expert who served under seven presidential administrations. He was one of two younger brothers to the Pulitzer Prize winner Alex Haley.
Karen Eileen Spilka is an American politician and attorney serving as a Democratic member of the Massachusetts Senate. She represents the towns of Ashland,Framingham,Holliston,Hopkinton,Medway and Natick in the MetroWest region of Massachusetts. She has served as the 95th President of the Massachusetts Senate since July 2018. Previously she served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2001 to 2005.
Francis Joseph Ricciardone Jr. is a former President of the American University in Cairo. Ambassador Ricciardone was the United States ambassador to Turkey between 2011 and 2014. Previously he was Deputy Ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul,Afghanistan. He was also on leave from the U.S. Department of State as a guest scholar at the U.S. Institute of Peace. He has served as U.S. Ambassador to the Arab Republic of Egypt (2005–2008),the Republic of the Philippines and the Republic of Palau (2002–2005). As a career member of the Senior Foreign Service,he received U.S. government and other organization awards for his work in foreign policy and program management,political reporting and analysis,and peacekeeping.
James Dow Constantine is an American politician,lawyer,and urban planner in the state of Washington who is serving his third term as King County Executive,an office he has held since November 2009. He was in the state legislature and on the King County Council,chairing the latter before his election as executive. Constantine is a self-identified Democrat,though the executive's office is officially nonpartisan. He considered running for governor of Washington in the 2020 election but decided against it when incumbent Jay Inslee decided to seek a third term.
Philip Seth Goldberg is an American diplomat and government official who has served as United States ambassador to South Korea since 2022. He served previously as ambassador to the Philippines,Bolivia and Colombia and chief of the U.S. mission in UN-administered Kosovo during the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations. He has served in Washington as assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research. In 2022,he was nominated by President Joe Biden to be the U.S. ambassador to South Korea and was confirmed on May 5,2022 by the United States Senate through voice vote.
Keiser University is a private university with its main campus in Fort Lauderdale,Florida and flagship residential campus in West Palm Beach,Florida. Additional branches are located in other parts of Florida and internationally. Keiser provides educational programs at the undergraduate,graduate,and doctorate levels in both traditional and online delivery formats. The school is institutionally accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
Samuel William Hunt is an American politician and educator serving as a member of the Washington State Senate from the 22nd district.
Kevin L. Raye is an American politician. Raye is a member of the Republican Party and served as a member of the Maine Senate,representing the 29th district in northeastern Washington County from December 2004 to December 2012. From December 2010 to December 2012,Raye served as President of the Maine Senate,and as such,was next in line to the governorship of Maine.
Washington's 33rd legislative district is one of forty-nine districts in Washington for representation in the state legislature.
Lois Winkelmann Kolkhorst is an American businesswoman and politician serving as a Republican member of the Texas State Senate. She was first elected to the state Senate from the 18th District in a special election held on December 6,2014.
Johnny Ray Lovick is an American politician and law enforcement officer serving as a member of the Washington State Senate,representing the 44th district since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party,he was appointed in December 2021 to fill a vacancy created by the resignation of Steve Hobbs to become Washington secretary of state.
In the elections to the Florida State Senate that were held on November 6,2018,20 of the 40 seats were contested in regular elections and two seats in special elections. The winners of the 20 regular elections will serve four year terms from November 6,2018 to November 6,2022,and the winners of the two special elections will serve two year terms from November 6,2018 to November 6,2020.
