Founder
and president of the Public Strategies Group Inc.
LAST ELECTION RESULTS
LAST
ELECTION RESULTS
Re-elected
attorney general with 54 percent of the vote
N/A
POLITICAL EXPERIENCE
POLITICAL
EXPERIENCE
State
DFL Party chairman,1980-1983; Minnesota Commerce commissioner, 1983-1989; two
terms as Minnesota attorney general, 1998-2006
Deputy
mayor of Minneapolis,1977-79; former superintendent of Minneapolis Public Schools;
state finance commissioner under DFL Gov. Rudy Perpich, 1989-90
COMMITTEES
COMMITTEES
N/A
N/A
PREVIOUS WORK
PREVIOUS
WORK
Lawyer,
private practice
Vice
president of external affairs and chairman of the Dayton Hudson Foundation
BORN
BORN
Nov.
12, 1948. Grew up in Duluth, Minn.
Dec.
17, 1949 in Faribault, Minn.
EDUCATION
EDUCATION
B.A.
in political science from University of Minnesota-Duluth, 1970; J.D. from University
of Minnesota, 1973
B.A.
in government and urban studies from Dartmouth College; MPA-UP from Princeton's
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs; Advanced Management
Program at the Harvard Business School
FAMILY
FAMILY
Married
to Patti Hatch, an elementary school teacher; has three children
Married
to Karla Ekdahl, an advocate for the arts and children's issues; has two daughters
Won
with 45 percent of the vote, beating Democrat Roger Moe, independent Tim Penny
and Green Party candidate Ken Pentel
POLITICAL EXPERIENCE
Five
terms in Minnesota House, 1993-2003; elected majority leader in 1999
COMMITTEES
N/A
PREVIOUS WORK
Criminal
prosecutor
BORN
Nov.
27, 1960, St. Paul, Minn. near the stockyards of South St. Paul. His father was
a truck driver and his mother passed away from cancer when he was 16. He is the
youngest of five children, first in his family to graduate from college and the
lone Republican in a liberal family.
EDUCATION
B.A.
in political science from University of Minnesota, 1983; J.D. from University
of Minnesota, 1986
FAMILY
Married
to Mary Pawlenty, Dakota County District Court judge; has two children
