Erin Murphy (politician)

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Erin Murphy
File:Minnesota State Rep. Erin Murphy, DFL-St. Paul.jpg
Minnesota House Majority Leader
In office
January 8, 2013 – January 6, 2015
Preceded by Matt Dean
Succeeded by Joyce Peppin
Member of the Minnesota House of Representatives
from the 64A district
Assumed office
January 3, 2007
Preceded by Matt Entenza
Personal details
Born (1960-03-13) March 13, 1960 (age 64)
Columbus, Wisconsin
Political party Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party
Spouse(s) Joe Faust
Children 2
Residence Saint Paul, Minnesota
Alma mater University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh (B.S.)
College of St. Catherine (M.A.)
Occupation registered nurse, legislator
Religion Catholic

Erin Murphy (born March 13, 1960) is a Minnesota politician and the former Majority Leader of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), she represents District 64A, which includes portions of the city of Saint Paul in Ramsey County in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. She is a former executive director of the Minnesota Nurses Association and is a registered nurse.[1]

Education

Murphy graduated from high school in Janesville, Wisconsin, and later attended the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh, receiving her B.S. in nursing in 1984. She earned her M.A. in organizational leadership in health care at the College of St. Catherine in Saint Paul, Minnesota in 2005, and also attended the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota from 2005 to 2006 as a policy fellow.[1]

Career and community service

Murphy is a former executive director of the Minnesota Nurses Association and has also worked for the organization as a lobbyist and organizer. She previously worked in state government as legislative director for former Minnesota Attorney General Hubert H. Humphrey III, and as community relations director for the Minnesota Department of Children, Families and Learning. She was also an operating room nurse at the University of Minnesota Medical Center.[2]

Murphy served on the board of directors of Citizens for a Safer Minnesota from 1999 to 2001, and as a member of the board of trustees of the American Nurses Association political action committee. She was also an executive board member of the Minnesota chapter of the AFL–CIO.[2]

Minnesota House of Representatives

Murphy was first elected in 2006, and was re-elected in 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2014. She currently serves on the Rules and Legislative Administration Committee and previously served on the Health Care and Human Services Policy and Oversight Committee, the Taxes Committee, the Finance Subcommittee for Health Care and Human Services Finance Division, and the Health Care and Human Services Policy and Oversight Subcommittee for the Licensing Division.[1]

After the 2012 elections, Murphy was elected by the DFL House caucus to be Majority Leader.[3]

References

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Minnesota House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the House of Representatives
from District 64A
2007–present		 Incumbent
Party political offices
Preceded by Majority Leader of the Minnesota House of Representatives
2013–2015		 Succeeded by
Joyce Peppin
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