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Senator Mattie Hunter (D) - Previous General Assembly (101st)
3rd District
Majority Caucus Chair

Photograph of  Senator  Mattie Hunter (D)
 

Springfield Office:
Senator 3rd District
619 Capitol Building
Springfield, IL   62706
(217) 782-5966
 
District Office:
2929 S. Wabash Avenue
Suite 102
Chicago, IL  60616
(312) 949-1908
(312) 949-1958 FAX

Years served: 2003 - Present (Senate)

Committee assignments: Appropriations I; Committee of the Whole; Energy and Public Utilities; Executive (Chair); Human Services; Public Health; Subcommittee on Special Issues (EX) (Sub-Chair); Subcommittee on Special Issues (HS); Opioid Crisis Abatement Spec. Com.; Transportation (Vice-Chair); Sub. on Traffic Safety Systems (Sub-Chair); Government Accountability/Ethics.

Biography: Full-time state legislator; born June 1 in Chicago; B.A., government, 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.