Margarita Prentice
Margarita Prentice is a Washington State Senator (Democrat) for the 11th District, which includes Seattle's Beacon Hill, South Park, and portions of Renton, Kent, Tukwila, Burien, and SeaTac.
Political career
Senator Prentice was a member of the Washington House of Representatives from May 1988–1992. She was elected to the Washington State Senate in 1993. Her current term ends January 2009. Senator Prentice is the current Chair of the Senate Ways and Means Committee. She is also the former Chair and current member of the Senate Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee and serves on the Labor, Commerce, Research and Development Committee.[1]
Senator Prentice is known as a skilled politician with a reputation for loyalty and vindictiveness[citation needed]. The Senator has been praised for her work to improve the quality of education and healthcare in Washington and has championed increased funding for both. While in the House, she sponsored the first bills on Farm Worker Housing. While the Chair of the Senate Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee, Senator Prentice sponsored the first bills in Interstate Bank Branching and legislation transitioning credit unions to federal share insurance. Recently she has shown leadership in attempting to fund a new basketball arena for the Seattle Sonics. [2] In addition, the Senator has worked to prohibit discrimination in housing, employment and insurance based on sexual orientation. The Senator was also the first to sponsor legislation regulating the payday lending industry.
Personal
Senator Prentice attended Phoenix College; Youngstown State University; St. Joseph’s Hospital School of Nursing in Phoenix; and the University of Washington. A nurse for more than 20 years, she worked in various capacities, including hospital administrator and various assignments as a registered nurse. She also served as a member of the Renton School Board.
She has three children and five grandchildren.
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