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Graduates of the Foreign Policy Institute for State Legislators (2001-2009)

2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009

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* Now serving in the United States Congress
** No longer serving in the state legislature
*** In Memoriam


Class of 2009

  • Representative Barbara Bigsby Boyd (AL)
  • Representative Rebecca Chavez-Houck (UT)
  • Representative Gilda Cobb-Hunter (SC)
  • Senator Oletha Faust-Goudeau (KS)
  • ** Martha Garcia (AZ)
  • Senator Christine Kaufmann (MT)
  • Representative Kay Khan (MA)
  • Senator Nicole LeFavour (ID)
  • Representative Helen Miller (IA)
  • Senator Sandra L. Pappas (MN)
  • Representative Kathy Webb (AR)

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Class of 2008

  • Representative Stacey Abrams (GA)
  • ** Meg Burton-Cahill (AZ)
  • Representative Sue Chew (ID)
  • ** Elizabeth Dennigan (RI)
  • Representative Patricia Dillon (CT)
  • ** Eileen Ehlers (NH)
  • ** Rosa Franklin (WA)
  • Representative Sara A. Gelser (OR)
  • Representative Laura Hall (AL)
  • Representative Kathy Hawken (ND)
  • ** Wilhelmina Epps Lewellen (AR)
  • Senator Yvonne B. Miller (VA)
  • Representative Jennifer Seelig (UT)
  • Representative Nancy Todd (CO)
  • Representative Franke Wilmer (MT)

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Class of 2007

  • ** Betty Boyd (CO)
  • Senator Jean D. Breaux (IN)
  • Representative Jean Farmer-Butterfield (NC)
  • Senator Bethany A. Hall-Long (DE)
  • Senator Arthenia L. Joyner (FL)
  • Assemblywoman Sheila Y. Oliver (NJ)
  • ** Anne Pasley-Stuart (ID)
  • Representative Mary Helen Roberts (WA)
  • Senator Margaret R. Rotundo (ME)
  • Senator Vi Simpson (IN)
  • Representative Kyrsten Sinema (AZ)

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Class of 2006

  • Representative Sherry Appleton (WA)
  • Representative Toni Berrios (IL)
  • *** Anita Bowser (IN)
  • ** Pam Brown (NE)
  • Senator Maralyn Chase (WA)
  • Senator Nia Gill (NJ)
  • Delegate Ana Sol Gutierrez (MD)
  • ** Janet Johnson (AR)
  • ** Carolyn H. Krause (IL)
  • Senator Velmanette Montgomery (NY)
  • Representative James Roebuck (PA)
  • ** Deborah Simpson (ME)
  • ** Eleanor Sobel (FL)
  • Senator Lena Taylor (WI)
  • Representative Senfronia Thompson (TX)

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Class of 2005

  • ** Catherine L. Barrett (OH)
  • Delegate Bonnie Brown (WV)
  • ** Marilyn Canavan (ME)
  • ** Fran Natividad Coleman  (CO)           
  • Representative Merika Williams Coleman (AL)
  • ** Joan Fitz-Gerald (CO)
  • ** Sonya Googins (CT)
  • Representative Phyllis Kahn (MN)
  • Senator Karen Keiser (WA)
  • Representative Judith Loganbill (KS)
  • Senator Linda J. Lopez (AZ)
  • ** Martha G. Scott (MI) 
  • ** Kathy Tingelstad (MN)
  • ** Maggie Tinsman (IA)
  • ** Juanita Head Walton (MO)

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Class of 2004

  • Representative Sharon Beasley-Teague (GA)
  • *** Gwendolyn Britt (MD)
  • Representative Karen Clark (MN)
  • *** Jean B. Cryor (MD)
  • ** Rita Heard Days (MO)
  • Senator Nancy C. Detert (FL)
  • Senator Joyce Elliott (AR)
  • Delegate Barbara Evans Fleischauer (WV)
  • ** Paulette Riley Irons (LA)
  • Representative Beth Kerttula (AK)
  • Representative Barbara C. Marumoto (HI)
  • Delegate Shirley Nathan-Pulliam (MD)
  • Senator Toby Ann Stavisky (NY)
  • ** “Able” Mable Thomas (GA)

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Class of 2003

  • ** Donna Boe (ID)         
  • ** Alice Borodkin (CO)
  • ** Joan Bray (MO)                       
  • ** Anne Gannon (FL)
  • Senator Eleanor Kinnaird (NC)
  • ** Lydia N. Martinez (CT)          
  • Representative Maile S.L. Shimabukuro (HI)
  • ** Ada L. Smith (NY)                   
  • Representative Susan Westrom (KY)

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Class of 2002

  • Representative Martha Bedell Alexander (NC)           
  • Senator Karen Fraser (WA) 
  • fomer U.S. Representative Debbie DeFrancesco Halvorson (IL)                      
  • Senator Verna L. Jones (MD)                 
  • Representative Phyllis Gutierrez Kenney (WA)               
  • ** Lisa Tessier Marraché (ME)
  • ** Mary Jo McGuire (MN)               
  • ** Barbara J. Mobley (GA)                    
  • * U.S. Representative Allyson Y. Schwartz (PA)
  • Senator Andrea L. Stillman (CT)
  • ** Jackie K. Weatherspoon (NH)

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Class of 2001

  • ** Viola Osborne Baskerville (VA)
  • Representative Mary Flowers (IL)
  • Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles (WA)
  • Representative Marilyn B. Lee (HI)
  • ** Salima Siler Marriott (MD)
  • * U.S. Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL)
  • ** Joan F. Stern (MD)
  • ** Connie Stokes (GA)
  • ** Velma Rosete Veloria (WA)

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The Class of 2008 met in Washington, DC from August 3 through August 7, 2008.