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Representative Jehan A. Gordon (D) - Previous General Assembly (97th)
92nd District

Photograph of  Representative  Jehan A. Gordon (D)
 

Springfield Office:
Senator 92nd District
200-8S Stratton Office Building
Springfield, IL 62706
(217) 782-3186
(217) 558-4552 FAX
 
District Office:
300 E. War Memorial Drive
Suite 303
Peoria, IL 61614
(309) 681-1992
(309) 681-8572 FAX

Years served: 2009 - Present

Committee assignments: Consumer Protection; Elementary & Secondary Education; Small Business Empowerment & Workfo; Transportation, Regulation, Roads (Vice-Chairperson); Veterans' Affairs; Railroad and Air Transportation Sub.

Biography: Full-time state legislator; lifelong Peoria resident; prior to taking office as State Representative, served as a member of the Pleasant Hill District 69 School Board, worked at Illinois Central College as a retention coordinator, and was chair of Peoria Promise; previously worked at Bradley University’s Small Business Development Center, helping to provide assistance to local entrepreneurs; former AmeriCorps VISTA worker; board member, Friends of People with AIDS; volunteer, Junior Achievement of Central Illinois; B.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Associated Representative(s): David Koehler