Terrell McKinney (born August 17, 1990) is an American politician who is a member of the

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. He has represented the 11th district since 2021, replacing Nebraska's longest-serving senator,

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. McKinney is the 14th

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member of the Nebraska legislature, and the ninth since it converted to a unicameral body in 1937. In 2021 McKinney introduced a bill requiring school districts to include financial literacy in elementary and middle school curriculum. He also introduced a bill banning employment discrimination based on ethnic hairstyle. McKinney supported Republican

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's bill to expand

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program benefits. McKinney helped to override governor

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veto of the expansion, although he would have liked the expansion of SNAP to have been even larger. McKinney supports community organizations serving Omaha's Black community. He presented a resolution commending the organization Black Men United for distributing food to those in need during the

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. In 2024, McKinney was selected for the Future Caucus Innovation Fellowship as part of the Criminal Justice Reform cohort, a bipartisan coalition of Gen Z and millennial lawmakers interested in creating policies to improve the criminal justice system.

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