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Senator Jacqueline Y. Collins (D) - Previous General Assembly (93rd)
16th District

Photograph of  Senator  Jacqueline Y. Collins (D)
 

Springfield Office:
Senator 16th District
M108 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; Environment & Energy; Revenue (Vice-Chair); Joint Task Force I & R; Subcommittee on Special Issues; Sen. Comm. Whole.

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 Representative(s): Mary E. Flowers
 Charles G. Morrow, III