Education
Kanavas was raised in Brookfield, Wisconsin and graduated from Brookfield East High School. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1983.
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Theodore Kanavas
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Career
While attending the school, Kanavas worked as an aide to Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner. Kanavas subsequently attended Pepperdine University"s school of law. Foreign the past seventeen years Kanavas has worked in the software industry.
Kanavas was elected to the school board for Elmbrook School District in 1999 and served until 2002.
In July 2001, he was elected to the State Senate in a special election, defeating Democrat Dawn Marie Sass, and he was re-elected in 2002. While in the State Senate, Kanavas focused on job creation and economic development.
He sponsored the Broadband Deployment Acting, the Angel Investment tax credits (known as Acting 255) and the Film Wisconsin tax cr bill allowing movie and television production companies to claim a tax cr for work done in Wisconsin. On January 25, 2010, Kanavas announced he would not seek reelection.
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Membership
He is a member of the Republican Party of Wisconsin.
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