Joy Koesten (born December 30, 1954) is an American politician who served in the
Kansas House of Representatives
The Kansas House of Representatives is the lower house of the legislature of the U.S. state of Kansas. Composed of 125 state representatives from districts with roughly equal populations of at least 19,000, its members are responsible for craftin ...
from the 28th district from 2017 to 2019.
Joy Koesten and her husband launched a campaign to fund an Endowed Professorship in Developmental and Behavioral Health at Children’s Mercy Hospital supporting research into adolescent depression and suicide prevention.
On August 7, 2018, she was defeated in the Republican primary for the 28th district by
Kellie Warren. On December 13, 2018, she announced she was changing her party affiliation from
Republican to
Democratic.
Joy had announced that she will run for the
Kansas Senate
The Kansas Senate is the upper house of the Kansas Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. State of Kansas. It is composed of 40 senators elected from single-member districts, each with a population of about 73,000 inhabitants. Members o ...
11 Seat in the
Overland Park
Overland Park ( ) is the largest city in Johnson County, Kansas, United States, and the second-most populous city in the state of Kansas. It is one of four principal cities in the Kansas City metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the pop ...
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Leawood area on September 15, 2019. She was defeated by Republican
Kellie Warren, by a vote of 52.7%, to Koesten's 47.3%.
References
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1954 births
Living people
Members of the Kansas House of Representatives
Women state legislators in Kansas
21st-century American women politicians
Kansas Republicans
Kansas Democrats
21st-century members of the Kansas Legislature