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Senator Mattie Hunter (D) - Previous General Assembly (101st)
3rd District
Majority Caucus Chair

Springfield Office:

619 Capitol Building

Springfield, IL 62706

(217) 782-5966

District Office:

2929 S. Wabash Avenue

Suite 102

Chicago, IL 60616

(312) 949-1908

(312) 949-1958 FAX

Years served: 2003 - Present (Senate)

Committee assignments: Appropriations I; Committee of the Whole; Energy and Public Utilities; Executive (Chair); Human Services; Public Health; Subcommittee on Special Issues (EX) (Sub-Chair); Subcommittee on Special Issues (HS); Opioid Crisis Abatement Spec. Com.; Transportation (Vice-Chair); Sub. on Traffic Safety Systems (Sub-Chair); Government Accountability/Ethics.

Biography: Full-time state legislator; born June 1 in Chicago; B.A., government, Monmouth College; M.A., sociology, Jackson State University; certified drug and alcohol counselor and prevention specialist; former vice president of Human Resources Development Institute Inc.; member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc.; co-chair of Health Policy Task Force, Council of State Governments; vice chair of the Commission to Study the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its Past and Present Effects on African-Americans; single.

Associated Senator(s):	Sonya M. Harper
	Lamont J. Robinson, Jr.

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