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Senator Mattie Hunter (D) - Previous General Assembly (102nd)
3rd District
Majority Caucus Chair

Photograph of  Senator  Mattie Hunter (D)
 

Springfield Office:
Senator 3rd District
417C 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: Behavioral and Mental Health; Energy and Public Utilities; Ethics (Vice-Chair); Executive; Executive Appointments (Vice-Chair); Healthcare Access and Availability; Transportation; Revenue (Chair); App- Criminal Justice (Sub-Chair); App-Health; Appropriations; Redistricting; Redistricting- Chicago South; Executive- Gaming (Sub-Vice-Chair); Executive- Procurement (Sub-Vice-Chair); Executive- Special Issues (Sub-Chair).

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; 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 Representative(s): Sonya M. Harper
 Lamont J. Robinson, Jr.