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

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

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A Representative Stacey Abrams (Georgia) Representative Martha Bedell Alexander (North Carolina) Representative Sherry Appelton (Washington) Top B ** Catherine Barrett (Ohio) ** Viola Osborne Baskerville (Virginia) Representative Sharon Beasley-Teague (Georgia) Representative Maria A. “Toni” Berrios (Illinois) Representative Donna Boe (Idaho) ** Alice Borodkin (Colorado) ***Anita Bowser (Indiana) Representative Barbara Bigsby Boyd (Alabama) Senator Betty Boyd (Colorado) Senator Joan Bray (Missouri) Senator Jean D. Breaux (Indiana) *** Senator Gwendolyn Britt (Maryland) Delegate Bonnie Brown (West Virginia) **Pam Brown (Nebraska) Senator Meg Burton-Cahill (Arizona) Top C ** Marilyn Canavan (Maine) Representative Maralyn Chase (Washington) Representative Rebecca Chavez-Houck (Utah) Representative Sue Chew (Idaho) Representative Karen Clark (Minnesota) Representative Gilda Cobb-Hunter (South Carolina) ** Fran Natividad Coleman (Colorado) Representative Merika Williams Coleman (Alabama) *** Jean B. Cryor (Maryland) Top D Senator Rita Heard Days (Missouri) Representative Elizabeth Dennigan (Rhode Island) Senator Nancy C. Detert (Florida) Representative Patricia Dillon (Connecticut) Top E ** Eileen Ehlers (New Hampshire) Senator Joyce Elliott (Arkansas) Top F Representative Jean Farmer-Butterfield (North Carolina) Senator Oletha Faust-Goudeau (Kansas) ** Joan Fitz-Gerald (Colorado) Delegate Barbara Evans Fleischauer (West Virginia) Representative Mary Flowers (Illinois) Senator Rosa Franklin (Washington) Senator Karen Fraser (Washington) Top G ** Anne Gannon (Florida) Representative Martha Garcia (Arizona) Representative Sara A. Gelser (Oregon) Senator Nia Gill (New Jersey) ** Sonya Googins (Connecticut) Delegate Ana Sol Gutierrez (Maryland) Top H Representative Laura Hall (Alabama) Senator Bethany A. Hall-Long (Delaware) *U.S. Representative Debbie DeFrancesco Halvorson (Illinois) Representative Kathy Hawken (North Dakota) Top I ** Paulette Riley Irons (Louisiana) Top J ** Janet Johnson (Arkansas) Senator Verna L. Jones (Maryland) Senator Arthenia L. Joyner (Florida) Top

K Representative Phyllis Kahn (Minnesota) Senator Christine Kaufmann (Montana) Senator Karen Keiser (Washington) Representative Phyllis Gutierrez Kenney (Washington) Representative Beth Kerttula (Alaska) Representative Kay Khan (Massachusetts) Senator Eleanor Kinnaird (North Carolina) Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles (Washington) ** Carolyn H. Krause (Illinois) Top L Representative Marilyn B. Lee (Hawaii) Senator Nicole LeFavour (Idaho) Representative Wilhelmina Epps Lewellen (Arkansas) Representative Judith Loganbill (Kansas) Senator Linda Lopez (Arizona) Top M Senator Lisa Tessier Marrache (Maine) ** Salima Siler Marriott (Maryland) ** Lydia N. Martinez (Connecticut) Representative Barbara C. Marumoto (Hawaii) ** Mary Jo McGuire (Minnesota) Representative Helen Miller (Iowa) Senator Yvonne B. Miller (Virginia) ** Barbara J. Mobley (Georgia) Senator Velmanette Montgomery (New York) Top N Delegate Shirley Nathan-Pulliam (Maryland) Top O Assemblywoman Sheila Y. Oliver (New Jersey) Top P Senator Sandra L. Pappas (Minnesota) Representative Anne Pasley-Stuart (Idaho) Top R Representative Mary Helen Roberts (Washington) Representative James R. Roebuck (Pennsylvania) Representative Margaret R. Rotundo (Maine) *U.S. Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Florida) Top S *U.S. Representative Allyson Y. Schwartz (Pennsylvania) Senator Martha G. Scott (Michigan) Representative Maile Shimabukuro (Hawaii) Representative Jennifer Seelig (Utah) Senator Deborah Simpson (Maine) Senator Vi Simpson (Indiana) Representative Kyrsten Sinema (Arizona) ** Ada L. Smith (New York) ** Eleanor Sobel (Florida) Senator Toby Ann Stavisky (New York) ** Joan F. Stern (Maryland) Senator Andrea L. Stillman (Connecticut) ** Connie Stokes (Georgia) Top T Senator Lena Taylor (Wisconsin) ** “Able” Mable Thomas (Georgia) Representative Senfronia Thompson (Texas) ** Kathy Tingelstad (Minnesota) ** Maggie Tinsman (Iowa) Representative Nancy Todd (Colorado) Top V ** Velma Rosete Veloria (Washington) Top W ** Juanita Head Walton (Missouri) ** Jackie K. Weatherspoon (New Hampshire) Representative Kathy Webb (Arkansas) Representative Susan Westrom (Kentucky) Representative Franke Wilmer (Montana) Top

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The Class of 2009 met in Washington, DC from July 12 through July 16, 2009.