Mee Moua
Legislator, Politician
1969 –
Who is Mee Moua?
Mee Moua, is the president and executive director of the Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC. Prior to her current post, she served as the vice president for strategic impact initiatives at the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum, where she was the executive administrator of the Washington, D.C. office and managed the communications, government relations, policy analysis and research functions of the organization.
Moua was the first Hmong American woman elected to a state legislature, where she served as a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. She represented District 67 in the Minnesota Senate, which includes portions of the city of Saint Paul in Ramsey County, which is in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. On May 16, 2010, she announced that she would not run for a third term.
Moua chaired the Judiciary Committee and held the highest office of any Hmong American politician. She also served on the senate's Taxes and Transportation committees, and was a member of the Finance subcommittee for the Public Safety Budget Division and the Transportation Budget and Policy Division, of the Judiciary Subcommittee for Data Practices, and of the Taxes Subcommittee for the Property Tax Division.
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- Born
- Jun 30, 1969
Xiangkhouang Province - Ethnicity
- Hmong American
- Hmong people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Brown University
- Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
- University of Minnesota Law School
- Lived in
- Saint Paul
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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