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Emma Greenman is an American politician who has served in the Minnesota House of Representatives since 2021. She is a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) and represents District 63B, which includes parts of south Minneapolis in Hennepin County, Minnesota.

Early Life, Education, and Career: Greenman attended high school at Minneapolis South High School. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from George Washington University, a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University, and a Juris Doctor from the UC Berkeley School of Law.

Career Highlights: In 2007, Greenman worked as a legal intern at the Brennan Center for Justice. In 2008, she was a summer associate at King & Spalding. She was then a legal intern in the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. In 2010, she was the deputy campaign manager of Margaret Anderson Kelliher’s campaign for governor of Minnesota. She then worked as an attorney in the Public Defender’s Office in Ramsey County, Minnesota, and as a state director for the Service Employees International Union.

From 2013 to 2015, Greenman was a political trainer for Wellstone Action, a progressive advocacy organization. She also worked as an attorney for Maslon LLP from 2012 to 2015. In 2015, she represented Tony Webster, an independent journalist who sued the city of Bloomington for failing to release records related to a Black Lives Matter protest. From 2015 to 2021, she was the director of voting rights and democracy at the Center for Popular Democracy.

Political Career: In 2018, she was a member of Attorney General Keith Ellison’s transition team. In 2016, Governor Mark Dayton appointed Greenman to the Minnesota Campaign Finance Board. She served briefly in an interim capacity, but her appointment was not confirmed by the Republican-controlled Minnesota Senate.

Greenman was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 2020 and reelected in 2022. She first ran after 17-term incumbent Jean Wagenius announced she would not seek reelection.