Spencer Black represented the 77th Assembly District in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1985 until 2011. He served for many years as the Chair of the Assembly Natural Resources Committee. He also was elected Assembly Minority Leader and Assistant Minority Leader.

Black authored numerous environmental laws including the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Fund, the Mining Moratorium law, the Lower Wisconsin Riverway, the statewide recycling program, and the endangered species matching grant program.

Black attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison and has two graduate degrees: Masters of Science in Urban and Regional Planning and a Masters of Arts in Public Policy and Administration. Black previously worked as a high school teacher and coach, as Curator of Education of the Wisconsin Historical Society

Wisconsin Historical Society

The Wisconsin Historical Society is simultaneously a private membership and a state-funded organization whose purpose is to maintain, promote and spread knowledge relating to the history of North America, with an emphasis on the state of Wisconsin and the trans-Allegheny West...

 and as a conservationist for the Sierra Club

Sierra Club

The Sierra Club is the oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organization in the United States. It was founded on May 28, 1892, in San Francisco, California, by the conservationist and preservationist John Muir, who became its first president...

. Black is also an alumnus of Stuyvesant High School in New York City.

Black is currently a Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

External links

• Follow the Money – Spencer Black
  • 2008 2006 2004 2002 2000 1998 campaign contributions
• Spencer Black campaign contributions at Wisconsin Democracy Campaign