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Senator Jacqueline Y. Collins (D) - Previous General Assembly (94th)
16th District

Photograph of Senator  Jacqueline Y. Collins (D)
 

Springfield Office:
M118 Capitol Building
Springfield, IL 62706
(217) 782-1607
District Office:
1155 West 79th Street
Chicago, IL 60620
(773) 224-2830
(773) 224-2855 FAX
Years served: 2003 - Present

Committee assignments: Approp I (Vice-Chair); Sen. Comm. Whole; Financial Institutions (Chair); Housing & Community Affairs; Revenue; Fin. Inst. Subcomm. Special Issues; Fin. Inst. Predatory Lending; Fin Inst Subcommittee on Amendments; Revnue Subcommittee Special Issues (Sub-Chair).

Biography: Full Time Legislator. Born December 10th in McComb, Mississippi. Studied journalism at Northwestern University; MA from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government; MA in Human Services Administration from Spertus College; MA in Theological Studies from the Harvard Divinity School, June 2003. Former Emmy Award-nominated news editor at CBS-TV in Chicago, Minister of Communications for St. Sabina Catholic Church in Chicago and 2001 Legislative Fellow with United States Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.


Associated Senator(s): Mary E. Flowers
 Milton Patterson