Former Vice Chair, Elections Committee, Arizona State House of Representatives

Former Vice Chair, Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee, Arizona State Senate

Former Member, Joint Legislative Budget Committee, Arizona State Senate

Former Member, Judiciary and Public Safety Committee, Arizona State House of Representatives

Former Member, Legislative Council Committee, Arizona State House of Representatives

Former Chair, Rules Committee, Arizona State House of Representatives

Former Member, Ways and Means Committee, Arizona State House of Representatives

Former Vice Chair, Elections Committee, Arizona State House of Representatives

Former Member, Judiciary and Public Safety Committee, Arizona State House of Representatives

Former Member, Legislative Council Committee, Arizona State House of Representatives

Former Chair, Rules Committee, Arizona State House of Representatives

Former Member, Ways and Means Committee, Arizona State House of Representatives

Chair, Commerce Committee

Member, Finance Committee

Member, Government Committee

— Awards:

• Nominated "rising star" at the State Capitol by the Arizona Capitol Times (2012)
• Representative of the Year Award by the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry (2012)
• Legislator of the Year Award by the Arizona Retailers Association (2012)
• Open Government Leader Award by the Arizona Capitol Times (2012)
• School Choice Champion (2011)
• The Outstanding Student for the University of Phoenix MBA program, 2006.

Favorite Quote:

"A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master." - George Washington

"I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." - Winston Churchill

"The Utopian schemes of leveling, and a community of goods, are as visionary and impracticable as those which vest all property in the Crown. [These ideas] are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government, unconstitutional." - Samuel Adams

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln

"...the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek..." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway." - Mother Teresa

"In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed. Consequently he who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed." - Abraham Lincoln