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Senator Mattie Hunter (D)
3rd District
Assistant Majority Leader

Photograph of  Senator  Mattie Hunter (D)
 

Springfield Office:
Senator 3rd District
417 C Capitol Building
Springfield, IL   62706
(217) 782-5966
 
District Office:
2929 S. Wabash Avenue
Suite 102
Chicago, IL  60616
(312) 949-1908

Years served: 2003 - Present (Senate)

Committee assignments: Public Health (Vice-Chair); Energy and Public Utilities; Executive; Executive Appointments (Vice-Chair); Health and Human Services; Approp- Pub Safety & Infrastructure; EX Consolidation (Sub-Chair); Procurement (Sub-Chair); EX Ethics (Sub-Vice-Chair); Chicago Elected Rep. School Board.

Biography: Full-time state legislator; B.A., government and Doctor of Humane Letters degree, Monmouth College; M.A., sociology, Jackson State University; certified drug and alcohol counselor and prevention specialist; co-chair of the Task Force on Missing and Murdered Chicago Women, Health and Human Services Task Force, Kidney Disease Prevention and Education Task Force, and Medicaid Managed Care Oversight Commission; member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., the National Conference of State Legislatures, Women in Government and Durban Sister Cities International; single.

Associated Representative(s): Sonya M. Harper
 Kimberly Du Buclet