Kim Hixson was a Democratic Party

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 member of the Wisconsin State Assembly

Wisconsin State Assembly

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, representing the 43rd Assembly District 2007-2011. He chaired the Colleges and Universities Committee and was a member of the Education, Financial Institutions, Work Force Development, and Consumer Protection committees. He previously served as a member of the Committees on Aging and Long Term Care, and Rural Economic Development.

Hixson received an A.A. in Broadcasting

Broadcasting

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 at Chattanooga State Technical Community College, a B.A. in Advertising

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 and English

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 and a M.A. in Professional Writing from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

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, and a Ph.D. in Journalism

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 from Southern Illinois University

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He is married, with a son and two daughters. Prior to his election to the Assembly, Representative Hixson was a professor of Advertising at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

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. Representative Hixson also served on the City of Whitewater

Whitewater, Wisconsin

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 Common Council.

External links

• Follow the Money - Kim Hixson
  • 2008 2006 campaign contributions
• Campaign 2008 campaign contributions at Wisconsin Democracy Campaign