AFRICAN AMERICAN STATE HOUSE LEADERS

Speaker Pro Tempore Representative Lois DeBerry, Tennessee President Pro Tempore Senator Rodger Smitherman, Alabama Deputy Speaker Pro Tempore Assemblyman Jerry Green, New Jersey Representative Earl Harris, Indiana Delegate Carolyn J.B. Howard, Maryland Representative Larry Turner, Tennessee Assistant Speaker Pro Tempore Representative Earnest Brown, Jr., Arkansas Representative Shanelle Jackson, Michigan Assemblywoman Laura Richardson, California Deputy Speaker Representative Marie Lopez Kirkley-Bey, Connecticut Assemblyman Alfred E. Steele, New Jersey	Democratic Caucus Chair Senator Sam Smith, Jr., Indiana Assistant Democratic Caucus Chair Senator Howard Glenn, Indian Caucus Sergeant At Arms Senator Spencer Coggs, Wisconsin Caucus Secretary Senator Yvonne Wilson, Missouri
MAJORITY Majority Leader Senator Toni Nathaniel Harp, Connecticut Senator Charlie Dannelly, North Carolina Representative Gary Odom, Tennessee Senator Celestino A. White, Sr., U.S. Virgin Islands Deputy Majority Leader Representative Felipe Reinoso, Connecticut Representative Arthur L. Turner, Illinois Representative Joseph S. Almeida, Rhode Island Assemblywoman Earlene Hooper, New York Assistant Majority Leader Representative Charles "Don" Clemons, Jr., Connecticut Representative William R. Dyson, Connecticut Representative Wyvetter H. Younge, Illinois Representative Helen Miller, Iowa Representative Fred Strahorn, Ohio Assemblywoman Vivian Cook, New York Second Assistant Majority Leader Representative Byron Rushing, Massachusetts Majority Whip Representative Toni E. Walker, Connecticut Delegate Talmadge Branch, Maryland Senator Katie Dorsett, North Carolina Assemblyman N. Nick Perry, New York	Deputy Majority Whip At Large Representative Guillermina Gonzalez, Connecticut Deputy Majority Whip Senator Ed Gomes, Connecticut Delegate Keith E. Haynes, Maryland Delegate Marvin E. Holmes, Maryland Delegate Shirley Nathan Pulliam, Maryland Delegate Michael Vaughn, Maryland Majority Floor Leader Assemblywoman Karen Bass, California Assistant Associate Majority Floor Leader Representative Robert Dean, Michigan Assistant Democratic Floor Leader Representative Jamar Shumate, Oklahoma Majority Conference Chair Representative Charles E. Jefferson, Illinois Deputy Majority Conference Leader Assemblyman William D. Payne, New Jersey Majority Caucus Vice Chairman Representative Joe Armstrong, Tennessee
MINORITY Minority Leader Senator Robert Brown, Georgia Senator Maida Coleman, Missouri Senator Malcolm A. Smith, New York Representative Joyce Beatty, Ohio Assistant Minority Leader Senator Tupac Hunter, Michigan Senator Tom Roberts, Ohio Minority Leader Pro Tempore Senator Frederica S. Wilson, Florida Representative Joyce Cusack, Florida Minority Lead Whip Senator Anthony C. "Tony" Hill, Florida Senator Arthenia L. Joyner, Florida Minority Whip Representative Carolyn Hughley, Georgia Representative Connie Johnson, Missouri Senator Ray Miller, Ohio Senator Kevin Parker, New York Assistant Minority Whip Senator Lance T. Mason, Ohio	Minority Floor Leader Senator Lisa Gladden, Maryland Senator Buzz Thomas, Michigan Assistant Minority Floor Leader Senator Bernice Mathews, Nevada Senator Velmanette Montgomery, New York Minority Caucus Chairman Representative Samuel Smith, Indiana Representative Calvin Smyre, Georgia Minority Caucus Vice Chair Representative Nikki Randall, Georgia Minority Caucus Vice Chair for Outreach Delegate Lionell Spruill, Sr., Virginia Minority Caucus Sergeant at Arms Delegate Onzlee Ware, Virginia Minority Caucus Treasurer Delegate Jeion A. Ward, Virginia Minority Caucus Secretary Senator Vincent Hughes, Pennsylvania Representative Larry Turner, Tennessee