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State Legislative/Political Experience

  • State Legislator, 1988-98; 2002-present

  • Chair, Senate Committee on Ways and Means, 2006 –

  • Chair, Senate Committee on Health, 2003-2006

  • Vice Chair, Senate Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Housing, 2003-2006

  • Co-Chair, SCR 117 Task Force examined Forensic Mental Health issues and State Hospital Census, 2006-2007

  • Joint Legislative Committee on Family Caregiving, 2006 –

  • Chair, Senate Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Housing, 2006-present

  • Joint Legislative Task Force to Conduct a Review of the State Highway Fund, 2007

  • Chair, Senate Committee on Health, 2002-2006
  • Institute of Medicine Subcommittee on Emergency Medical Services for Children, 2004-2006
  • Co-Chair, Senate Committee on Ways and Means, 1998

  • Co-Chair, Senate Committee on Consumer Protection and Information Technology, 1997

  • Joint Legislative Committee on Long Term Care Financing, 1997-98

  • Senate Majority Leader, 1995-96

  • Chair, Senate Committee on Housing, 1994

  • Appointed to the Senate, November, 1993

  • House Majority Leader, 1993

  • House Finance Committee member, 1988-1992

  • Vice chair of various House committees, 1988-1992

  • Delegate, Democratic National Convention, 1984, 1992 and 2000 (alternate)

  • Chair, National Youth Franchise Coalition and led effort to secure 26th Amendment to the United State Constitution lowering the voting age to 18, 1970

  • Coordinated lobbying effort to enact legislation created the U.S. Department of Education, 1979

  • Co-Chair, 1997 National Conference, National Order of Women Legislators (NOWL)

  • Legislator Chair, Committee on Legislative effectiveness, ASI, National Conference of State Legislators, 1996-97

  • Vice-Chair, Assembly on State Issues, NCSL, 1997-1998

 

Community Activities and Honors

  • 2007 National Award from C-Change, a national collaboration to conquer cancer, for "Exemplary Leadership by an Elected Official in comprehensive Cancer Control"

  • Hawaii Comprehensive Cancer Control Coalition; Vice-Chair, 2005-2007; Chair, 2007 - present

  • 2004 Healthcare Association of Hawaii Legislator of the Year Award for demonstrating exceptional leadership in advancing access to affordable, quality healthcare for all of Hawaii's people.

  • Hawaii Optometric Association Legislator of the Year, 2004
  • 2003 Hawaii Psychological Association Legislator of the Year Award for outstanding contributions to psychology and mental health in the State of Hawaii

  • Hawaii Pacific Board of Directors, American Cancer Society, 2003-present

  • Legislator of the Year, Healthcare Association of Hawaii, 1998

  • Small Business Owner, 1980-1987
  • Relay for Life Chair, volunteer and Past President, American Cancer Society-Maui County unit

  • Board of Directors, Maui Economic Development Board, 2003 - present

  • Soroptimist International of West Maui

  • President, Rotary Club of Lahaina Sunrise, 2007-2008

  • Lahainatown Action Committee volunteer

  • Former member, Board of Directors, Maui Youth & Family Services

  • 1995 Distinguished Alumna, Southwest Texas State University

  • 1994 Soroptimist International of West Maui Woman of Distinction

  • Hawaii Pacific, Inc., American Cancer Society, Director

  • ACS-CAN Hawaii chair

  • Member, Lahaina Town Action Committee

  • Member, West Maui Taxpayers Assn.

  • Member, Kihei Community Assn.

  • Board member, AKAKU Community Television, 1999-2002

  • American Cancer Society, Maui, Moloka'i, Lana'i Unit, president, 1997-01

  • Past Director, Maui Visitors Bureau

  • Pacific Century Scholars mentor 1998-99

  • Mayor's Advisory Committee on a 4 Year University

  • Mayor's Advisory Committee on the Old Lahaina Courthouse

  • Community Work Day volunteer

  • Maui Service Area Board on Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Former Vice Chair

  • Family Community Leadership Advisory Committee

  • Maui Youth & Family Services Board, past board member

  • Member of the Democratic party
 

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Senator Roz Baker, Strong, caring leadership

Roz Baker has represented the people of Maui County in the Hawai`i State Legislature for 16 years serving in a variety of leadership positions. She currently represents the 5th Senate District (South and West Maui) and is Chair of the Senate Ways and Means Committee. She is a long-time advocate for issues that affect the quality of life for the average person, issues such as quality health care, quality public education, fairness in education and the workplace, equal opportunity for all, women's issues such as prevention of domestic violence and sex assault, care for elders, economic development to include STEM initiatives and alternative fuels. She also has an abiding concern for the preservation of the health and beauty of Hawaii’s natural resources.

Senator Baker has been actively engaged in her community first as a small business owner and also as a member of numerous service and community organizations. She serves on the Maui Economic Development Board and the West Maui Domestic Violence Task Force. She owned a retail business on Maui and served a four-year appointment as Maui County’s Economic Development Director. She is an ex-officio board member of Maui Visitors Bureau and supporter of the Lahaina Town Action Committee, the West Maui Taxpayers Association, the Kihei Community Association and the Maalaea Community Association. Roz was honored to serve as the 2007-2008 President of the Rotary Club of Lahaina Sunrise.

Senator Baker has been pivotal in developing health policy for our State, serving for four years as Senate Health Chair from 2002-2006. She has been recognized for her leadership in health policy by such organizations as American Cancer Society (Hawai`i-Pacific), Hawai`i Primary Care Association, Healthcare Association of Hawai`i, Hawai`i Long Term Care Association, Hawai`i Psychological Association, Coalition for a Tobacco Free Hawai`i and the Hawai`i Optometric Association. Senator Baker has served on several national committees addressing access to care issues including the Subcommittee on Pediatric Emergency Care of the Institute for Medicine’s Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the US Health System which issued its report in 2006. She served as Co-chair of the SCR 117 Task Force on looking at overcrowding at Hawai`i State Hospital and related forensic and mental health issues, is a member of the Joint Legislative Task Force on Long Term Caregiving and served on the Joint Task Force to Conduct a Review of the State Highway Fund.

Prior to moving to Hawai`i in 1980, Roz was a lobbyist for the National Education Association in Washington, D.C. She graduated from Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State University at San Marcos) with a BA in political science and speech and a secondary teaching certificate.