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Personal Details

Caucuses/Former Committees

Former Member, Cities and Villages Committee, Illinois State House of Representatives

Former Member, Elementary & Secondary Education Committee on School Curriculum & Policies

Former Member, Subcommittee on Family Law, Illinois State House of Representatives

Former Member, Transportation Committee on Regulation, Roads and Bridges, Illinois State House of Representatives

Former Member, Veterans Affairs Committee, Illinois State House of Representatives

Education

  • JD, DePaul University College of Law, 1993-1996
  • BA, Political Science/Speech Communications, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, 1989-1993

Professional Experience

  • JD, DePaul University College of Law, 1993-1996
  • BA, Political Science/Speech Communications, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, 1989-1993
  • Attorney, Terra Costa Howard, Attorney at Law, 2003-present
  • Adjunct Instructor, College of DuPage, present
  • Staff Attorney, DuPage County Public Defender's Office, 1998-2003

Political Experience

  • JD, DePaul University College of Law, 1993-1996
  • BA, Political Science/Speech Communications, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, 1989-1993
  • Attorney, Terra Costa Howard, Attorney at Law, 2003-present
  • Adjunct Instructor, College of DuPage, present
  • Staff Attorney, DuPage County Public Defender's Office, 1998-2003
  • Representative, Illinois State House of Representatives, District 48, 2019-present
  • Candidate, Illinois State House of Representatives, District 48, 2018, 2020

Current Legislative Committees

Vice Chair, Adoption and Child Welfare Committee

Member, Appropriations for Elementary and Secondary Education

Member, Appropriations for Human Services

Member, Appropriations for Human Services Subcommittee on Special Issues

Member, Judiciary-Civil Committee

Chair, Judiciary- Civil Subcommittee on Family Law and Probate

Member, Mental Health Committee

Member, Tourism Committee

Religious, Civic, and other Memberships

  • JD, DePaul University College of Law, 1993-1996
  • BA, Political Science/Speech Communications, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, 1989-1993
  • Attorney, Terra Costa Howard, Attorney at Law, 2003-present
  • Adjunct Instructor, College of DuPage, present
  • Staff Attorney, DuPage County Public Defender's Office, 1998-2003
  • Representative, Illinois State House of Representatives, District 48, 2019-present
  • Candidate, Illinois State House of Representatives, District 48, 2018, 2020
  • Leader, Girl Scouts of the United States of America, present
  • Member, Village of Glen Ellyn Plan Commission, present
  • Former Member, Board, Glen Ellyn School, District 41
  • Former Member, Parent Teacher Association

Other Info

Favorite Quote:

Here's to strong women. May we know them, may we be them, may we raise them.

Well behaved women rarely make history. Eleanor Roosevelt

I feel ... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings. Thomas Jefferson

If a man empties his purse into his head no man can take it from him. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin

Speeches
Events

2020

Sep. 5
Campaign Kick Off!

Sat 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM CDT

425 S Main Street, Lombard, IL

Aug. 15
Community Blood Drive 8/15/2020

Sat 9:30 AM – 2:00 PM CDT

Calvary Episcopal Church, Lombard Lombard, IL

Jul. 7
Community Conversation on Race

Tue 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM CDT