Representative, Missouri State House of Representatives, District 11, 2019-present

Candidate, Missouri State House of Representatives, District 11, 2022

Member, Budget Committee

Chair, Higher Education Committee

Member, Special Committee on Student Accountability

Member, Subcommittee on Appropriations - Education

Member, Workforce and Infrastructure Development Committee

Chairman of Higher Education Committee, Missouri State House of Representatives

Vice-Chairman of Subcommittee on Appropriations - Education, Missouri State House of Representatives

Member of Budget Committee, Missouri State House of Representatives

Member of Children and Families Committee, Missouri State House of Representatives

Member of Joint Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect, Missouri State House of Representatives

Former Teacher, Business, Benton High School

Former Treasurer, Missouri State Teachers Association, Saint Joseph

Former Logistics Specialist, Quaker Oats Company

Former Teacher, Business, Truman Middle School

Chief Executive Officer/President, United Way of Greater Saint Joseph, 2006-2010

Member, Missouri's Coordination Board for Early Childhood Education, present

Member/Former Chair, State of Public Policy Committee, Missouri YMCA, present

Former Board Member, Allied Arts Council

Former Board Member, Buchanan County Tourism

Former Member, Commerce Bank Community Reinvestment Act Advisory Board

Member, Executive Committee, YMCA of Greater Kansas City

Member, Girl Scouts Leadership Circle

Former President, Mid-Buchanan Parent Teacher Association

Member, Missouri Governor's Complete Counts Census Committee

Member, Northwest Missouri's P-20 Council

Former Board Member, Saint Joseph Chamber of Commerce

Member, Saint Joseph Mental Health Committee

Member, Troop 216 Committee, Boy Scouts of America

Former Board Chair, United Cerebral Palsy

Former Board Member, YMCA of Greater Kansas City