Deborah (Debbie) DeFrancesco Halvorson (D)
About The Candidate
- Office Sought: Representative, Illinois (11)
- Birth Date: March 1, 1958
- Web site: http://www.debbiehalvorson.com
Education
- Governors State University, BA
- Governors State University, MS
Deborah "Debbie" DeFrancesco Halvorson was born in a Chicago Heights and raised in Steger, Ill.
Halvorson is a former cosmetic saleswoman who now holds a powerful post in the Illinois General Assembly as Senate majority leader, the top lieutenant to the state Senate president.Halvorson first was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996 while she serving as Crete Township Clerk in the far south Chicago suburbs.
Halvorson holds three college degrees - an associate's from Prairie State College and bachelor's and master's degrees from Governor's State University.
She and her husband, Jim Bush, live in Crete, Ill. They have four children and grandchildren.
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