Family Fireside - Sunday August 8, 7:00 pm Salem Hills High School
CLICK HERE for full text of of Senator Valentine's talk RAISING AND GROWING AS A FAMILY IN TODAY'S SOCIETY.
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Speaker -Utah State Senator John Valentine
Valentine was born in Fullerton, California and graduated from Savanna High School, in Anaheim, California. He obtained a B.S. in Accounting and Economics from Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1973 and a J.D. from BYU's J. Reuben Clark School of Law in 1976. Upon graduating from Brigham Young University with a law degree Valentine joined the law firm of Howard, Lewis & Petersen where he currently is employed as a managing partner.
Valentine ran for the Utah House of Representatives for state House district in 1988. He won re-election in 1990 in State House district 59 and in 1992 ran for the Utah State House in district 58 and was subsequently elected to represent the 58th State House district until he was appointed to the Utah State Senate in 1998 to replace Republican Senator Craig A. Peterson, representing the state's 14th Senate district. He was elected to serve as Majority Whip in 2001 and served as President of the Senate for four years.
As a Utah State Senator, Valentine is the co-chair of the Senate's Higher Education Appropriations Committee, and is a member of the Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee. He also chairs the Senate Business and Labor Committee, and is a member of the Senate Ethics Committee.
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Created on 07/07/2006 12:26 PM by daleb
Updated on 08/16/2010 11:18 AM by webadmin
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