Tom Sawyer is an American politician who served as the minority leader of the Kansas House of Representatives. A Democrat, Sawyer has represented the 95th district, covering southwest Wichita, since 2013. Sawyer previously represented the same district from 1987 to 1999 and from 2003 to 2009, serving as both Majority Leader and Minority Leader during his first stint in the legislature.
The Kansas Senate is the upper house of the Kansas Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. State of Kansas. It is composed of 40 senators elected from single-member districts, each with a population of at least 60,000 inhabitants. Members of the Senate are elected to a four-year term. There is no limit to the number of terms that a senator may serve. The Kansas Senate meets at the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka.
Gilda Z. Jacobs was a Democratic member of the Michigan Senate, representing the 14th district from 2003 through 2010. The mostly suburban district is in southeastern Oakland County, and includes the cities of Farmington Hills, Huntington Woods, Southfield, and Oak Park. Jacobs was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 1999 to 2002.
Broderick Henderson is an American politician. He was as a Democratic member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 35th district. He served from 1995 to 2023.
Cindy Neighbor is a current Democratic member of the Kansas House of Representatives, who represents the 18th district. She first served from 2003 to 2004 as a Republican, and then served as a Democrat from 2007 to 2011. Neighbor ran for re-election in 2010 and was defeated by Republican John Rubin. Neighbor ran again in 2016 and reclaimed her seat, from Erik Jenkins, the Republican who ran to replace the retiring Rubin.
Valdenia Camille "Val" Winn is an American Democratic member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 34th district. She has served since 2001.
David C. Wysong is a former Republican member of the Kansas Senate for the 7th district. He was first elected in 2004. He resigned in December 2009 and was replaced by Terrie Huntington.
Shirley Palmer was an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the Kansas House of Representatives, represented the 4th district from 2007 to 2011. Palmer ran for re-election in 2010, but was defeated by Republican Marty Read.
Jene Vickrey is a former Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 6th district. He served from 1993 until his resignation in July 2020 following his decision not to seek reelection in 2020, and is a former House Majority Leader and speaker pro tempore of the House of Representatives.
Virgil Peck Jr. is state legislator in Kansas. A Republican, he served in the Kansas House of Representatives from 2005 to 2013, representing the 12th district. He currently represents Kansas State Senate district 15. He is the former chairman of the Kansas House Transportation and Public Safety Budget Committees, and the former Republican Majority Caucus Chairman.
Kay Wolf is a former Republican member of the Kansas Senate, representing the 7th district from 2013 until she announced her retirement in 2016 and was replaced by Barbara Bollier in 2017. Previously, she served in the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 21st district, from her appointment on August 8, 2005, until 2013.
Raymond F. Merrick is a Republican former member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing district 27 from 2013 to 2017. He was elected Speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives in December 2012.
Sheryl Spalding is a Republican former member of the Kansas House of Representatives, who represented the 29th district. In 2012, redistricting placed her in the 8th district instead; she ran for election from that seat,but was defeated by Craig McPherson in the 2012 primary election.
Connie O'Brien is a Republican and a former member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 42nd district. A native of Kansas City, Missouri, she served from 2009 to 2017.
Deena Horst is a Republican former member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 69th district. She served from 1995 until 2010, when she was defeated in a primary by Tom Arpke, who would win the seat in the general election.
Peter DeGraaf is a Republican former member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing District 82 from 2008 to May 31, 2017. He resigned from the state House on May 31, 2017, due to complications with Parkinson's disease.
Delia Garcia is an American official who formerly served as the Kansas Secretary of Labor. Garcia previously served as a Democratic member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 103rd district. She served from 2005 to 2011, and was a member of the Kansas Democratic Hispanic Caucus.
Elaine Bowers is a Republican member of the Kansas Senate, representing the 36th district since 2013.
James Frank "Jim" Morrison was a Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives, who represented the 121st district. He served from August 4, 1992 until his death on November 25, 2010.
Barbara Goolsbee Bollier is an American physician and politician. From 2017 to 2021, she was a member of the Kansas Senate representing the 7th district, which includes Mission Hills, Kansas in Johnson County. Bollier is a member of the Democratic Party, after having left the Republican Party in 2018. Bollier was the Democratic nominee in the 2020 United States Senate election in Kansas, losing in the general election to Republican congressman Roger Marshall.
