Joan K. Christensen

Education

Graduate, Metropolitan Business College, Chicago student, Syracuse University.

Career

Member, Syracuse Common Council member, Syracuse Board Assessment Review member 119th district, New York State Assembly, since 1990; chair legislation women's caucus, chair task force on women's issues, chair administrative regulations review commission, New York State Assembly member aging, housing, higher education, labor, real property taxation, and small business committees, honorary member Puerto Rican/Hispanic task force, New York State Assembly member task force worker's compensation reform, New York State Assembly. Member local government, cities, small business, labor and aging committees. Honorary member of New York State Assembly P.R./Hispanic Task Force.

Achievements

• Joan K. Christensen has been listed as a noteworthy State legislator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Liaison to Mayor's Syracuse Common for Women. Member City of Syracuse (New York) Board of Assessment Review, 1984, Syracuse Common Council, chair finance, taxation and assessment committee, Veterans Airport, Public Safety, Public Works and Transportation Coms. Board directors American Heart Association, Meals on Wheels, PaulRobeson Performing Arts Company, Eric Trust Memorial Foundation.

Board directors, vice chair Neighborhood Watch Groups of Syracuse. Honorary co-chair Pregnancy Hotline Task Force. Active Thursday Morning Roundtable.

Member Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1955 Ladies Auxiliary, South Side Business Association, Urban League of Onondaga County, Inc., Women in Government, National Order of Women's Legislators, Metropolitan Business and Professional Women's Club Syracuse, Delta Kappa Gamma.

Connections

Children: Cara, David, Laura, Michael.

child:

Michael Christensen

child:

Laura Christensen

child:

David Christensen

child:

Cara Christensen