Former Vice Chair, Advanced Tuition Payment, Legislative Advisory Committee, Washington State House of Representatives

Former Assistant Ranking Minority Member, Capital Budget Committee, Washington State House of Representatives

Former Assistant Ranking Minority Member, Community Development, Housing and Tribal Affairs Committee, Washington State House of Representatives

Former Chair, Early Learning and K-12 Education Committee, Washington State Senate

Former Ranking Minority Member, Higher Education Committee, Washington State House of Representatives

Former Member, Higher Education, Joint Committee, Washington State House of Representatives

Former Member, Joint Committee on Article IX Litigation, Washington State Senate

Former Member, Rules Committee, Washington State House of Representatives

Former Vice Chair, State Government Committee, Washington State Senate

Former Member, Veterans' and Military Affairs, Joint Committee, Washington State House of Representatives

Former Member, Ways and Means Committee, Washington State Senate

Ranking Member, Housing Stability and Affordability Committee

Member, Human Services, Reentry and Rehabilitation Committee

Member, Joint Committee on Education Accountability System Oversight

Vice Chair, Legislative Oral History Advisory Committee

Ranking Member, State Government, Tribal Relations and Elections Committee

Member, Transportation Committee

Member, Veterans' and Military Affairs

— Awards:

• 2013 Legislator of the Year, Associated General Contractors;
• 2012 Legislator of the Year, Washington Student Association
• 2015 Gabrielle Giffords Award for Civility in State Governance

Favorite Book:

Collected writings of George Washington.

Favorite Quote:

"Only by doing the work ourselves, only by giving generously out of our own pockets, can we hope in the long run to maintain the authority of the people over the state, to ensure that the people remain the master, the state the servant. Every time we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of government, to the same extent we are sacrificing the liberties of the people." - John F. Kennedy

Hobbies or Special Talents:

Hiking