State Senator Alberta Darling (R-River Hills) has been appointed the new Chair of the Senate Committee on Education succeeding the retiring Luther Olsen. The announcement came as part of new Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu’s overall release on Senate committee structure for the upcoming 2021-22 legislative session.
Sen. Darling has been the co-chair of the Legislature’s budget committee as well as vice-chair of the education committee for the past several sessions. She was elected to the state Assembly in 1990, the state Senate in 1992 and is a former education committee chair. She represents the 8th Senate District (see map) which includes the following school districts (some partial): Arrowhead UHS, Brown Deer, Cedarburg, Erin, Fox Point J2, Germantown, Glendale-River Hills, Grafton, Hamilton, Hartford J1, Hartford UHS, Holy Hill Area, Maple Dale-Indian Hill, Menomonee Falls, Mequon-Thiensville, Merton Community, Milwaukee, Nicolet UHS, Port Washington-Saukville, Richmond, Whitefish Bay
Also announced as serving on the committee are Sens. Kathy Bernier (R-Chippewa Falls) as vice chair and Steve Nass (R-Whitewater).
