Brita J. Sailer (born 1953) is a
Minnesota
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politician and a former member of the
Minnesota House of Representatives
The Minnesota House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the U.S. state of Minnesota's Minnesota Legislature, legislature. It operates in conjunction with the Minnesota Senate, the state's upper chamber, to write and pass legislation, whic ...
who represented District 2B, which includes all or portions of
Beltrami,
Clearwater,
Hubbard,
Pennington and
Polk counties in the northwestern part of the state. A
Democrat, she is an art teacher, freelance artist and consultant.
Sailer was first elected in 2004, and was re-elected in 2006 and 2008. She was unseated by
Republican Dave Hancock in the 2010 general election. She was a member of the House Environment Policy and Oversight Committee, and was vice chair of the Environment Policy and Oversight Subcommittee for the Game, Fish and Forestry Division. She also served on the Commerce and Labor Subcommittee for the Telecommunications Regulation and Infrastructure Division, and on the Finance subcommittees for the Energy Finance and Policy Division and the Housing Finance and Policy and Public Health Finance Division.
Sailer attended Alexandria High School in
Alexandria
Alexandria ( ; ) is the List of cities and towns in Egypt#Largest cities, second largest city in Egypt and the List of coastal settlements of the Mediterranean Sea, largest city on the Mediterranean coast. It lies at the western edge of the Nile ...
, then went on to
Moorhead State University in
Moorhead, earning her
BA in Art. She was a Hubbard County Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor, and also served as Area 1 Director on the Minnesota Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts.
References
External links
Rep. Sailer Web PageMinnesota Public Radio Votetracker: Rep. Brita SailerProject Votesmart – Rep. Brita Sailer ProfileBrita Sailer Campaign Web Site
1953 births
Living people
People from Park Rapids, Minnesota
Democratic Party members of the Minnesota House of Representatives
Women state legislators in Minnesota
Methodists from Minnesota
People from Alexandria, Minnesota
21st-century American women politicians
21st-century members of the Minnesota Legislature
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