Kansas
House of Representatives,1987-95; Kansas insurance commissioner, 1995-2003
Kansas
Senate, 2000-06; member of the Emporia Board of Education, 1991-99
COMMITTEES
COMMITTEES
Chairman
of the Education, Early Childhood and Workforce Committee of the National Governors'
Association; policy chairman of the Democratic Governors' Association
Chairman
of Public Health and Welfare
PREVIOUS WORK
PREVIOUS
WORK
Public
official
Physician
BORN
BORN
May
15, 1948 in Cincinnati
July
30, 1954
EDUCATION
EDUCATION
B.A.
from Trinity College, 1970; M.P.A. from University of Kansas, 1977
B.A.
in chemistry from Emporia State University, Doctor of Medicine from University
of Kansas