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U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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Brian Baird
D-Wash.
Re-elected for his third term. PhD in psychology from the University
of Wyoming
Before his election to Congress in 1998, Baird was a practicing
psychologist in Washington state and Oregon and had chaired the
Pacific Lutheran University department of psychology. Baird is a
member of the House Science Committee and is a primary sponsor of the
Patients' Bill of Rights, which seeks to reform managed care.
Timothy Murphy
R-Pa.
Elected for his first term. PhD in psychology from the University of
Pittsburg.
Prior to his election to Congress, Murphy was a practicing
psychologist who held adjunct faculty positions at the University of
Pittsburgh in the departments of public health and pediatrics. He had
also been serving his second term in the Pennsylvania State Senate,
where he championed health-care reform and was the chief sponsor of
the Pennsylvania patient protection law.
Tom Osborne
R-Neb.
Re-elected for his second term. PhD in educational psychology from the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln. While Osborne doesn't consider himself
a psychologist, he has actively promoted issues important to
educational psychology. During his first term, he established a
national mentoring program. Among football fans, Osborne is best known
as the former head coach of the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers.
Ted Strickland
D-Ohio
Re-elected for his fifth term. PhD in counseling psychology from the
University of Kentucky; master's in divinity from Asbury Theological
Seminary. Before coming to Congress, Strickland worked as a minister,
professor and clinical psychologist in a maximum-security prison.
Among the psychology-friendly initiatives he has pressed for are the
Patients' Bill of Rights to reform managed care and legislation that
created a national demonstration program for mental health courts. He
was also instrumental in getting inclusion of psychology under the
Medicare Graduate Medical Education program. His wife, Frances, is an
educational psychologist.
Diane Watson
D-Calif.
Re-elected for her second term. PhD in educational administration from
Claremont Graduate School; master's in school psychology from
California State University. Watson served in the California State
Senate from 1978 until 2001 when her constituents asked her to run for
the congressional seat held by the late Julian Dixon. A former school
psychologist well-known for her fight for desegregation and tougher
academic standards, Watson was the first African-American woman
elected to the Los Angeles Board of Education in 1975.
STATE LEGISLATURES
Ruth B. Balser
D-Mass.
Re-elected for her third term the House of Representatives. PhD in
psychology from New York University. Balser, a clinical psychologist,
was instrumental in securing better coverage of mental health
conditions in Massachusetts. She is continuing to push for full mental
health parity in the state.
Phil Barnhart
D-Ore.
Re-elected for his second term in the House of Representatives. PhD
from the California School of Professional Psychology. Barnhart is a
lawyer and practicing psychologist. He serves as an adjunct faculty
member at the University of Oregon. His interests lie in strengthening
the state's educational system.
Joyce Beatty
D-Ohio
Re-elected for her second term in the House of Representatives. PhD in
psychology from the University of Cincinnati and Pacific Western
University
Beatty served as the House Minority Whip in 2002. She was the first
black female board chair of the Columbus Pacific Western Urban League.
Judy Ann Buffmire
D-Utah
Re-elected for her sixth term in the House of Representatives. PhD in
psychology from the University of Utah. Buffmire is a psychologist in
private practice whose key issues have included protecting the
environment and mental health parity. She is the sponsor of the Utah
catastrophic parity law; she will press for full parity in her new
term. In 1995, she received APA's Karl F. Heiser National Award for
Advocacy. She is the only psychologist legislator to have served as
president of a state psychological association; she was president of
the Utah association from 1999 to 2000.
Judy Chu
D-Calif.
Re-elected for her second term in the Assembly. PhD in clinical
psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology. Chu
served as a faculty member in the psychology department in the Los
Angeles California Community College District for 20 years. Among her
top priorities are education, the prevention of hate crimes and
improving the operations of domestic violence courts. She was named by
the California Journal as one of California's top new legislators.
Alan Lowenthal
D-Calif.
Re-elected for a third term in the Assembly. PhD in psychology from
Ohio State University. Lowenthal is on leave from California State
University, where he has been a psychology professor since 1969.
Louise McBee
D-Ga.
Re-elected for her seventh term in the House of Representatives. PhD
in counseling psychology from Ohio State University. McBee is a
retired University of Georgia psychology professor and administrator
who has served in the state legislature since 1991. Education and
health have been among her top concerns. This year, she introduced a
bill that would put an additional tax on cigarettes and cigars as a
way to help curb smoking.
Dale Miller
D-Ohio
Re-elected for his fourth term in the House of Representatives. PhD in
clinical psychology from the University of Utah. Miller has been a
tireless advocate of mental health parity in Ohio. Before coming to
the Ohio House, he served in the Cleveland City Council from 1980 to
1997.
Yvonne Prettner Solon
DFL-Minn.
Re-elected for a second term in the Senate. Master's in educational
psychology from the University of Minnesota--Deluth. Prettner Solon's
top concerns include education and health-care issues. She spent 12
years on the Duluth City Council. Solon was originally elected to the
Senate in a special election following the death of her husband, Sen.
Sam Solon, who had held the seat for almost 30 years.
Gloria Romero
D-Calif.
Re-elected for her second term in the Senate. PhD in social and
personality psychology from California State University, Riverside.
Romero served in California's State Assembly for two years before her
election to the Senate. Over the past 20 years, she has taught at
every level of the state's college system. She's also conducted
extensive research in HIV/AIDS education and prevention, which was
recognized by the National Institute of Mental Health.
Leland Yee
D-Calif.
Elected for the first time to the Assembly. PhD in child psychology
from the University of Hawaii. Yee, who came to the U.S. from China at
age 3, served on the San Francisco School Board and the city's Board
of Supervisors before his election to the assembly. He also served as
a therapist in the city's Children's Division of Mental Health and as
a school psychologist in the Oakland School District. His key issues
will be children and families.
Pat Gardner
D-Ga.
Re-elected for her second term in the state House of Representatives.
A nonpsychologist, Gardner has been executive director of the Georgia
Psychological Association since 1977. She has been a strong voice for
the mental health community in Georgia.
MEMBERS OF THE SENATE
Cochran, Thad - (R - MS)
University of Mississippi. He earned a BA degree at Ole Miss, with a
major in psychology and a minor in political science.
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