Trustee Christine Rice

Congressional District #6 Legislative District #56A Term Dates: July 1, 2006, through June 30, 2012 11152 14th Street North Lake Elmo, MN 55042 Phone: (651) 337-0300 E-mail: crice12@aol.com

Christine Rice, Lake Elmo, is a community and civic volunteer with previous public sector experience. She served as deputy commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Health from 1995 to 1997, as assistant commissioner of the department from 1993 to 1995 and as director of public and legislative affairs from 1991 to 1993. From 1987 to 1991, she served as assistant to the minority leader of the Minnesota House of Representatives.

Rice is a member of the Commission on Judicial Selection and the Board of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators. She is a former board member of the Minnesota Partnership for Action Against Tobacco, a current board member and former board president of the Epilepsy Foundation of Minnesota, and a former gubernatorial appointee to the Advisory Council of Community Based Planning. Rice received a bachelor's degree in speech and communication from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

She is a resident of the Sixth Congressional District. Gov. Tim Pawlenty appointed Rice to a six-year term ending June 30, 2012.