Education
Saint Catherine University. Harvard Kennedy School. Harvard University.
Saint Catherine University. Harvard Kennedy School. Harvard University.
She previously served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1989 to 2003, representing District 54A. Prior to the 1992 legislative redistricting, the area was known as District 63A.
A Democrat, McGuire is an attorney and an adjunct professor in the Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership and Political Science departments at Saint Catherine University in Saint Paul, and the state director for Project Citizen, a part of the Learning Law and Democracy Foundation. McGuire was first elected to the House in 1988, winning a seat that became vacant after the death of Republican John Rose on July 19, 1988.
She was an assistant majority leader during the 1993–1994 Biennium, and was chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Data Practices from 1993–1999.
During her time in office, McGuire served on the House"s Appropriations, Crime Prevention, Education, Environment and Natural Resources, Environment and Natural Resources Finance, Ethics, Family and Early Childhood Education Finance, Governmental Operations, Housing, Judiciary, Judiciary Finance, Labor-Management Relations, Local Government and Metropolitan Affairs, and Rules and Legislative Administration committees. On March 14, 2011, McGuire announced her candidacy for the open Senate District 66 seat.
The vacancy arose after Senator Ellen Anderson resigned to accept appointment by Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton as chair of the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission. A DFL Primary was held on March 29, 2011, with McGuire challenging District 66A Republican
John Lesch and attorney Steven Marchese.
Prior to the primary election, she received the endorsement of District 66B Republican Alice Hausman, with whom she had previously served in the House. McGuire served on the Senate"s Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications Committee and the Local Government and Elections Committee.
A lifelong resident of Falcon Heights, McGuire graduated from Alexander Ramsey High School in Roseville, then went on to the College of Saint Catherine, receiving her Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration.
She went on to the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, receiving her Master of Public Administration She earned her Juris Doctor from Hamline University School of Law in Saint Paul.
After graduating, she served as a criminal investigator with the Saint Paul City Attorney" General’ s Office, and was the director of the Neighborhood Mediation Project.
Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, Democratic Party.
She was also a member of various subcommittees relevant to each committee.