Sen. Steve Hobbs, longtime chair of the Senate Transportation Committee and the second longest-tenured member of the Senate Democratic Caucus, officially resigned from the Senate on Monday, Nov. 22 and will assume his duties as Washington’s 16th Secretary of State on Tuesday. “Being elected to the Senate was the greatest honor and thrill of my life,” Hobbs said. “I can say without hesitation that I gave this job everything I have and I hope I left my district and this institution in a better place than when I arrived.” Hobbs, 51, was first elected to the Senate in 2006. During his tenure he worked to deliver a long list of transportation and capital construction projects to his Snohomish County legislative district, and ...
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About Sen. Hobbs
Senator Steve Hobbs has been a member of the Washington State Senate since 2006. In addition to representing the people of the 44th district, he is a Lieutenant Colonel in the Washington Army National Guard and proudly served in Kosovo and Iraq. In 2011, he received a Master’s of Public Administration from the University of Washington Evans School. In 1994 he earned a bachelor’s degree in political science at the University of Washington.
Read Sen. Hobbs’ full biography here.
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