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Senator Kimberly A. Lightford (D) - Previous General Assembly (101st)
4th District
Senate Majority Leader

Photograph of Senator Kimberly A. Lightford (D)

Springfield Office:

Senator 4th District

329A Capitol Building

Springfield, IL 62706

(217) 782-8505

District Office:

4415 Harrison St.

Suite 550

Hillside, IL 60162

(708) 632-4500

(708) 632-4515 FAX

Years served: 1998 - Present

Committee assignments: Assignments (Chair); Committee of the Whole; Education (Chair); Energy and Public Utilities; Executive Appointments; Executive; Oversight Medicaid Mang. Care, Spec; Supplier Diversity, Special Com. On; Subcommittee on Gov. Operations (Sub-Chair); Subcommittee on Charter Schools (Sub-Chair); Subcommittee on Const. Amendments (Sub-Chair).

Biography: B.A. in Communications, Western Illinois University; M.A. in Public Administration, University of Illinois Springfield; former Village of Maywood trustee; former employee at Secretary of State, Department of Corrections and Central Management Services; longtime champion in the Senate for education, working families and women's issues; lives in Maywood with her family.

Associated Representative(s):	La Shawn K. Ford
	Emanuel Chris Welch

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