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Representative Karen May (D) - Previous General Assembly (93rd)
58th District

Photograph of  Representative  Karen May (D)
 

Springfield Office:
Senator 58th District
255-S Stratton Office Building
Springfield, IL   62706
(217) 782-0902
 
District Office:
210 Skokie Valley Road
Suite 12
Highland Park, IL  60035
(847) 831-5858
(847) 831-3454 FAX

Years served: 2001 - Present

Committee assignments: Health Care Availability Access (Vice-Chairperson); Appropriations-Higher Education; Judiciary I - Civil Law; Local Government; Public Utilities; Whole, Committee of the; IL State Toll Highway Authority (Vice-Chairperson); Healthy Illinois Plan.

Biography: Former member of the Highland Park City Council and Historic Preservation Commission. She has a bachelor's degree in communications from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the founder and president of a public relations advertising agency and worked as a newspaper reporter and freelance writer. She has also served in many civic, educational, and charitable organizations in Highland Park and Lake County. She is married (husband, Morton) and has two children.

Associated Representative(s): Susan Garrett