NE-01: Patty Pansing Brooks (D)
Patty Pansing Brooks was the co-chair of the $6 million Union Plaza Fundraising Campaign to create Lincoln’s first urban park. She served as co-chair of the $9.6 million Centennial Mall renovation. Finally, she was the co-chair of the $250 million Lincoln Public Schools bond issue in 2007 with former senator and friend, Kathy Campbell. That bond issue improved every school in every zip code in Lincoln.
In her two terms as a state senator representing Nebraska’s 28th District, Brooks introduced and passed bills that expanded children’s rights to legal representation in the justice system, established automatic sealing of children’s court records when they have completed their sentences, and reoriented the purpose of school peacekeeping officers away from bringing more children into the justice system, and toward keeping kids in school.
Brooks was born and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska, where her family has lived for four generations. Two of her three children constitute the fifth generation in Lincoln. She is a proud product of Southeast High School, graduated from Colorado College with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science, and received her law degree at the University of Nebraska College of Law.
She lives with her husband Loel in Lincoln, where they work together as law partners and have three children, Taylor, Graham, and Avary.
The above information was sourced from the candidate’s website.
