Marion Greene | |
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Member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from the 60A district |
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Incumbent | |
Assumed office January 4, 2011 |
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Preceded by | Margaret Anderson Kelliher |
Personal details | |
Born | 1970 |
Political party | Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party |
Spouse(s) | Bart Cannon |
Children | 2 stepchildren |
Residence | Minneapolis, Minnesota |
Alma mater | Swarthmore College University of Texas |
Profession | health policy analyst, legislator |
Marion C. Greene (born 1970) is a Minnesota politician and a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives who represents District 60A, which includes portions of the city of Minneapolis in Hennepin County, which is in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. A Democrat, she is a health policy analyst for St. Jude Medical in Little Canada.[1]
Greene was first elected to the House in 2010. She currently serves on the Government Operations and Elections and the State Government Finance committees, and on the Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Policy and Finance Subcommittee for the Legacy Funding Division.[2]
Greene grew up outside of the United States, as her parents served in the United States Foreign Service. She attended college at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, then moved to Washington, D.C., where she joined the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a non-profit watchdog and consumer advocacy group. She later worked for the Friends Committee on National Legislation, a public lobby organization founded by the Religious Society of Friends. In the mid-1990s, she worked for the Democratic Party’s Coordinated Campaign in New Mexico, then as a Democratic Caucus analyst for the New Mexico House of Representatives Voters and Elections Committee.[3][4]
After earning her M.B.A. from the University of Texas in Texas, Greene moved to the Twin Cities, where she worked in marketing for Pillsbury and General Mills before shifting to the medical device industry, working for Guidant and St. Jude Medical.[5][6]