Utah
Utah House follows Senate, announces all-women minority leadership team
The Utah Home Democratic Caucus elected, from left to proper, Rep. Angela Romero, District 25, to function minority chief; Rep. Jennifer Dailey-Provost, District 22, as minority whip; Rep. Sandra Hollins, District 21, as minority assistant whip; and Rep. Rosemary Lesser, District 10, as minority caucus supervisor. (Utah Home Democratic Caucus)
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SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Home Democratic Caucus introduced its management staff for the sixty fifth Legislature on Tuesday night after electing an all-female staff simply because the Utah Senate Minority Caucus did 12 days prior.
Rep. Angela Romero, District 25, is the primary particular person of colour and the second girl to function Utah Home minority chief.
Rep. Jennifer Dailey-Provost, District 22 would be the minority whip with Rep. Sandra Hollins, District 21, because the minority assistant whip and Rep Rosemary Lesser, District 10, because the minority caucus supervisor.
“I’m excited to steer our caucus ahead,” Romero stated. “As Democrats, we’ve got a important function in standing up for working individuals and points that influence our on a regular basis lives. We are going to proceed to champion good, data-driven insurance policies that Utahns need handed.”
Romero was elected in 2012 and represents Salt Lake Metropolis and West Valley Metropolis. From 2016-2020 she served because the Home Democratic assistant whip and at present serves as president-elect of the Nationwide Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators.
Romero’s work within the Legislature has centered on marginalized communities and highlighting survivor voices. She sponsored the Jail Rape Elimination Act with newly elected Senate Minority Chief Luz Escamilla, secured funds for the Statewide Sexual Assault and Interpersonal Violence Prevention Program and created the Lacking and Murdered Indigenous Girls and Lady Process Pressure in Utah.
Dailey-Provost was elected to the Legislature in 2019 and has served on the Home Well being and Human Companies, Authorities Operations and Social Companies Appropriations committees. She served because the assistant minority whip and earlier than being in authorities labored in a number of well being care-oriented nonprofits.
Hollins was the primary Black girl elected to the Utah Home of Representatives and has been serving since 2015.
As a licensed medical social employee, Hollins focuses her work on substance abuse therapy and advocates for companies for Salt Lake’s homeless inhabitants. She is a member of the Social Companies Appropriations Committee, the Well being and Human Companies Standing Committee, the Legislation Enforcement and Prison Justice Standing Committee, and the Baby Welfare Legislative Oversight Panel.
Lesser was an obstetrician-gynecologist within the Air Pressure for 15 years earlier than transferring to Ogden the place she labored at numerous hospitals and clinics for nearly 28 years.
She was elected to serve the rest of Rep. LaWanna Shurtliff’s time period after Shurtliff’s demise in December 2020. She is on the Home Well being and Human Companies and Political Subdivisions Committees, and the Public Schooling Appropriations Subcommittee.