The State Senate Will Have a New Education Chairman!

Senator Teresa Lubbers recently resigned her position as a State Senator in order to become the Commissioner of Higher Education.

Senator David Long the Leader in the Senate has chosen Senator Dennis Kruse to be the new Chairman of the powerful Senate Education Committee.

Here is some background on Senator Kruse. He served two terms as a Township Trustee in Northeast Indiana Dekalb County before being selected in 1989 to fill a vacancy in the Indiana House of Representatives.  In seven consecutive elections that followed, voters reelected him as their State Representative.  He was then tapped in 2004 to fill a Senate vacancy.  In 2006 Senator Kruse was elected to his own four year Senate term.  Senate District 14 includes parts of Allen and Steuben County and nearly all of Dekalb County.