47th District
Assistant Majority Leader

Committee assignments: Committee of the Whole; Financial Institutions; Higher Education; Appropriations II (Chairperson); Pensions and Investments; Transportation; Deficit Reduction; Trans. Subcommittee on Amendments; Subcomm.on Pension Enhancements.

Biography: Graduate of Quincy College; partner in family auction and real estate business; lives north of Rushville on the family farm with wife, Joan, and their four children: Matthew, Emily, Luke and Mark.