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Biography

  • Born Madison, Wisconsin, March 10, 1971; married; 3 children.
  • Graduate La Follette High School (Madison), 1989; B.S. University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, 1993; M.A. Edgewood College, 1996.
  • Full-time legislator.
  • Member: Dane County Democratic Party; Friends of Pheasant Branch; Middleton Action Team; VFW Auxiliary Council.
  • Former member: Parent Teacher Organization (president); Boy Scouts of America (cubmaster); Girl Scouts (troop leader); Monona Terrace Convention and Community Center Board.
  • Elected to Middleton-Cross Plains Area Board of Education, 2005-08; Dane County Board of Supervisors, 2008-14; Assembly 2012–20. Assistant Minority Leader 2021, 2019, 2017. Elected to Senate 2022. Minority Caucus Vice Chair 2023.

Member of Disability Board, Legislative State Supported Programs Study and Advisory Committee, Presidential Preference Selection Committee, Wisconsin Center District Board, Wisconsin Commission for the United States Semiquincentennial Commission and Wisconsin-Ireland Trade Commission

2025 Authored Proposals

(first or second author, first sponsor)

  • 4/23/2025: 2025 Assembly Joint Resolution 27
    Relating to: condemning the pardons and sentence commutations of individuals involved in the violent attack on law enforcement officers at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

  • 4/17/2025: 2025 Senate Joint Resolution 32
    Relating to: designating the first full week in May as Tardive Dyskinesia Awareness Week.

  • 3/21/2025: 2025 Senate Resolution 2
    Relating to: proclaiming March 2025 and March 2026 as Women’s History Months.

  • 3/14/2025: 2025 Senate Joint Resolution 17
    Relating to: honoring April 22, 2025, as the 55th anniversary of Earth Day.

  • 3/14/2025: 2025 Senate Joint Resolution 18
    Relating to: proclaiming the week of April 14, 2025, as Two Lights for Tomorrow Week in the state of Wisconsin.

  • 3/7/2025: 2025 Senate Joint Resolution 15
    Relating to: condemning the pardons and sentence commutations of individuals involved in the violent attack on law enforcement officers at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

  • 2/21/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 50
    Relating to: health care costs omnibus, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (FE)

  • 2/5/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 24
    Relating to: limitations on the total value of taxable property that may be included in, and the lifespan of, a tax incremental financing district created in the city of Middleton. (FE)

2025 Co-authored Proposals

  • 4/16/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 212
    Relating to: the form of referendum questions.

  • 4/16/2025: 2025 Senate Joint Resolution 26
    Relating to: celebrating May 7, 2025, as Skilled Trades Day in Wisconsin.

  • 4/16/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 208
    Relating to: prohibiting hedge funds from acquiring single-family homes in this state. (FE)

  • 4/16/2025: 2025 Senate Joint Resolution 27
    Relating to: proclaiming April 24, 2025, to be Holocaust Remembrance Day and April 27, 2025, to May 4, 2025, as Holocaust Days of Remembrance in Wisconsin.

  • 4/16/2025: 2025 Senate Joint Resolution 30
    Relating to: congratulating the University of Wisconsin–Madison women’s hockey team on winning the 2025 NCAA Division I Women’s Hockey National Championship.

  • 4/16/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 217
    Relating to: eliminating the publication requirement for a name change petition seeking to conform an individual’s name with the individual’s gender identity.

  • 4/16/2025: 2025 Senate Joint Resolution 29
    Relating to: designating April 2025 and April 2026 as Parkinson’s Disease Awareness Months.

  • 4/16/2025: 2025 Senate Joint Resolution 31
    Relating to: proclaiming March 31, 2025, as Wisconsin’s Transgender Day of Visibility.

  • 4/14/2025: 2025 Senate Joint Resolution 22
    Relating to: designating April 2025 and April 2026 as Testicular Cancer Awareness Month in Wisconsin.

  • 4/14/2025: 2025 Senate Joint Resolution 24
    Relating to: proclaiming April 26, 2025, as Shared Parenting Day in Wisconsin.

  • 4/14/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 195
    Relating to: serving maple syrup in a public eating place.

  • 4/14/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 187
    Relating to: study of guaranteed employment grant program and making an appropriation. (FE)

  • 4/14/2025: 2025 Senate Joint Resolution 21
    Relating to: honoring the life and public service of Senator Timothy Francis Cullen.

  • 4/14/2025: 2025 Senate Joint Resolution 23
    Relating to: proclaiming the week of April 28 to May 2, 2025, as School Nutrition Professionals Appreciation Week.

  • 3/21/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 142
    Relating to: algorithmic software for residential housing, and providing a penalty.

  • 3/21/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 148
    Relating to: the right to repair agricultural equipment, and providing a penalty. (FE)

  • 3/14/2025: 2025 Senate Joint Resolution 19
    Relating to: honoring the life and public service of Representative Jonathan Brostoff.

  • 3/14/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 135
    Relating to: special observance days in schools.

  • 3/7/2025: 2025 Senate Joint Resolution 13
    Relating to: honoring the life and public service of Assembly Chief Clerk Patrick Fuller.

  • 3/7/2025: 2025 Senate Joint Resolution 12
    Relating to: designating the month of March as Endosalpingiosis Awareness Month.

  • 2/26/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 73
    Relating to: prosecuting or adjudicating delinquent a person under the age of 18 for committing an act of prostitution.

  • 2/26/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 71
    Relating to: ratification of the Dietitian Licensure Compact. (FE)

  • 2/21/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 67
    Relating to: providing state aid to reimburse public and private schools that provide free meals to all pupils for the costs of those meals and making an appropriation. (FE)

  • 2/21/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 60
    Relating to: expanding the homestead income tax credit. (FE)

  • 2/12/2025: 2025 Senate Joint Resolution 8
    Relating to: proclaiming February 4, 2025, as Transit Equity Day.

  • 2/12/2025: 2025 Senate Joint Resolution 10
    Relating to: proclaiming February 2025 as Black History Month.

  • 2/5/2025: 2025 Senate Joint Resolution 6
    Relating to: honoring the life and enduring legacy of Robert George Uecker.

  • 2/5/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 23
    Relating to: extension of eligibility under the Medical Assistance program for postpartum women. (FE)

  • 2/3/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 12
    Relating to: a sales and use tax exemption for the sale of gun safes. (FE)

  • 2/3/2025: 2025 Senate Joint Resolution 3
    Relating to: proclaiming January 2025 as Human Trafficking Awareness and Prevention Month in the state of Wisconsin.

  • 2/3/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 14
    Relating to: pelvic exams on unconscious patients and creating an administrative rule related to hospital requirements for pelvic exams on unconscious patients.

2025 Cosponsored Proposals

  • 4/23/2025: 2025 Assembly Joint Resolution 35
    Relating to: proclaiming May 16, 17, and 18, 2025, Syttende Mai Weekend.

  • 4/23/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 227
    Relating to: inducements to sign or refrain from signing nomination papers, recall petitions, and certain other petitions.

  • 4/23/2025: 2025 Assembly Joint Resolution 33
    Relating to: declaration of the Economic Justice Bill of Rights.

  • 4/23/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 224
    Relating to: the form of referendum questions.

  • 4/23/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 220
    Relating to: discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodations, education, insurance coverage, national guard, jury duty, and adoption and in the receipt of mental health or vocational rehabilitation services.

  • 4/23/2025: 2025 Assembly Joint Resolution 32
    Relating to: designating the first full week in May as Tardive Dyskinesia Awareness Week.

  • 4/23/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 213
    Relating to: prohibiting hedge funds from acquiring single-family homes in this state. (FE)

  • 4/23/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 215
    Relating to: eliminating the publication requirement for a name change petition seeking to conform an individual’s name with the individual’s gender identity.

  • 4/23/2025: 2025 Assembly Joint Resolution 30
    Relating to: congratulating the University of Wisconsin–Madison women’s hockey team on winning the 2025 NCAA Division I Women’s Hockey National Championship.

  • 4/23/2025: 2025 Assembly Joint Resolution 31
    Relating to: proclaiming March 31, 2025, as Wisconsin’s Transgender Day of Visibility.

  • 4/23/2025: 2025 Assembly Joint Resolution 29
    Relating to: celebrating May 7, 2025, as Skilled Trades Day in Wisconsin.

  • 4/23/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 205
    Relating to: serving maple syrup in a public eating place.

  • 4/15/2025: 2025 Assembly Joint Resolution 26
    Relating to: honoring the life and public service of Senator Timothy Francis Cullen.

  • 4/15/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 186
    Relating to: study of guaranteed employment grant program and making an appropriation. (FE)

  • 4/15/2025: 2025 Assembly Joint Resolution 21
    Relating to: designating April 2025 and April 2026 as Testicular Cancer Awareness Month in Wisconsin.

  • 4/15/2025: 2025 Assembly Joint Resolution 22
    Relating to: proclaiming April 26, 2025, as Shared Parenting Day in Wisconsin.

  • 4/15/2025: 2025 Assembly Joint Resolution 23
    Relating to: designating April 2025 and April 2026 as Parkinson’s Disease Awareness Months.

  • 4/10/2025: 2025 Assembly Joint Resolution 20
    Relating to: proclaiming the week of April 28 to May 2, 2025, as School Nutrition Professionals Appreciation Week.

  • 3/17/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 147
    Relating to: the right to repair agricultural equipment, and providing a penalty. (FE)

  • 3/17/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 142
    Relating to: algorithmic software for residential housing, and providing a penalty.

  • 3/17/2025: 2025 Assembly Joint Resolution 19
    Relating to: honoring April 22, 2025, as the 55th anniversary of Earth Day.

  • 3/13/2025: 2025 Assembly Joint Resolution 18
    Relating to: honoring the life and public service of Representative Jonathan Brostoff.

  • 3/11/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 125
    Relating to: special observance days in schools.

  • 3/11/2025: 2025 Assembly Joint Resolution 17
    Relating to: proclaiming the week of April 14, 2025, as Two Lights for Tomorrow Week in the state of Wisconsin.

  • 3/11/2025: 2025 Assembly Joint Resolution 15
    Relating to: proclaiming March 26, 2025, as Purple Day for epilepsy.

  • 3/11/2025: 2025 Assembly Joint Resolution 12
    Relating to: honoring the life and public service of Assembly Chief Clerk Patrick Fuller.

  • 3/11/2025: 2025 Assembly Joint Resolution 13
    Relating to: designating the month of March as Endosalpingiosis Awareness Month.

  • 2/28/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 97
    Relating to: extension of eligibility under the Medical Assistance program for postpartum women. (FE)

  • 2/28/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 79
    Relating to: prosecuting or adjudicating delinquent a person under the age of 18 for committing an act of prostitution.

  • 2/24/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 62
    Relating to: health care costs omnibus, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (FE)

  • 2/20/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 52
    Relating to: expanding the homestead income tax credit. (FE)

  • 2/17/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 48
    Relating to: providing state aid to reimburse public and private schools that provide free meals to all pupils for the costs of those meals and making an appropriation. (FE)

  • 2/17/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 45
    Relating to: ratification of the Dietitian Licensure Compact. (FE)

  • 2/17/2025: 2025 Assembly Joint Resolution 9
    Relating to: honoring the life and enduring legacy of Robert George Uecker.

  • 2/17/2025: 2025 Assembly Joint Resolution 5
    Relating to: proclaiming February 2025 as Black History Month.

  • 2/6/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 22
    Relating to: limitations on the total value of taxable property that may be included in, and the lifespan of, a tax incremental financing district created in the city of Middleton. (FE)

  • 2/6/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 10
    Relating to: a sales and use tax exemption for the sale of gun safes. (FE)

  • 2/6/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 11
    Relating to: pelvic exams on unconscious patients and creating an administrative rule related to hospital requirements for pelvic exams on unconscious patients.

  • 2/6/2025: 2025 Assembly Joint Resolution 3
    Relating to: proclaiming January 2025 as Human Trafficking Awareness and Prevention Month in the state of Wisconsin.

2025 Votes