Education
Huntley graduated from Cretin High School in Saint Paul, and attended the University of Minnesota, receiving his Bachelor of Surgery in chemistry in 1960.
Huntley graduated from Cretin High School in Saint Paul, and attended the University of Minnesota, receiving his Bachelor of Surgery in chemistry in 1960.
He is a retired associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Minnesota Duluth and former director of Institutional Relations at the University"s School of Medicine. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy in biochemistry from the University of Iowa in Iowa City in 1970. Prior to being elected to the legislature, Huntley was active in Twin Ports area government.
He served on the Minnesota Great Lakes Commission, on the Duluth City Council (1984–1988), and as a commissioner on the Minnesota Seaway Portuguese Authority of Duluth (1988–1993).
He was also the president of the Seaway Portuguese Authority from 1990-1992. Huntley was first elected to the Minnesota legislature in 1992.
He was the chair of the Finance Subcommittee for the Health Care and Human Services Finance Division from 2007 to 2010. He announced on December 17, 2013 that he would not be seeking re-election in 2014.
Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, Democratic Party.
A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), he represented District 7A, which includes portions of the city of Duluth in Saint Louis County in the northeastern part of the state. He was a member of the Governor"s Joint Health Care Task Force, of the Legislative Commission on Health Care Access, and of the Task Force on Small Business Health Insurance.