Mindy Greiling is a former

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politician and a member of the

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who represented the former districts 54B and 54A in Ramsey County, part of the

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metropolitan area. (These districts have since been divided among other districts by redistricting.) District 54B included parts of Roseville and Little Canada, while District 54A included portions of Roseville, St. Anthony, and

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. She is a member of the

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(DFL). Greiling served 10 terms in the Minnesota House. She was first elected in 1992 in the old District 54B after serving on the Roseville School Board for five years. Following

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in 2002, her home became part of 54A. This district was previously represented by Mary Jo McGuire, who retired from the legislature to avoid running against a fellow Democrat in her new district, 66B. Greiling is an advocate of education, environmental issues, and mental health issues. She served as the K-12 Education Finance Committee Chair. She founded and chaired the Mental Health Caucus, a bipartisan committee formed from the Minnesota House and the

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. She also served as an assistant minority leader during the 2003-2004 Legislative Session. In January, 2012, before the redistricting following the 2010 Census, Greiling announced that she would not seek reelection in 2012. After leaving the legislature, Greiling wrote about her experiences dealing with the mental health system as the mother of a son with

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. The book, ''Fix What You Can: Schizophrenia and a Lawmaker's Fight for Her Son'', was published in 2020 by the University of Minnesota Press. Greiling graduated from

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in 1970 and obtained a master's degree in education from the

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in 1975. She is married to Roger Greiling and has two children.

Electoral history

*2010 Race for Minnesota State House - District 54A **Mindy Greiling (Democratic-Farmer-Labor) 9,997 (59.33%) **Mark Fotsch (Republican) 6,835 (40.57%) *2008 Race for Minnesota State House - District 54A **Mindy Greiling (Democratic-Farmer-Labor) 12,693 (57%) **Mark Laliberte (Republican) 9,402 (43%) *2006 Race for Minnesota State House - District 54A **Mindy Greiling (Democratic-Farmer-Labor) 11,662 (64.62%) **Bryan Graham (Republican) 6,368 votes (35.29%) *2004 Race for Minnesota State House - District 54A **Mindy Greiling (Democratic-Farmer-Labor) 13,059 (59.46%) **Teri Graham (Republican) 8,876 votes (40.42%) *2002 Race for Minnesota State House - District 54A **Mindy Greiling (Democratic-Farmer-Labor) 10,338 (52.90%) **Julie Ward (Republican) 8,718 (44.61%) **Andrew Abruzzese (Green) 476 (2.44%) *2000 Race for Minnesota State House - District 54B **Mindy Greiling (Democratic-Farmer-Labor) 11,743 (64.94%) **Roger Loveland (Republican) 8,718 (35.06%) *1998 Race for Minnesota State House - District 54B Retrieved on Dec. 30, 2006 **Mindy Greiling (Democratic-Farmer-Labor) 9,950 (60.90%) **Roger Loveland (Republican) 6,360 (38.90%)

References

External links

Greiling’s author websiteGreiling’s House Profile
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