Kathleen J. "Kathy" Sheran is a Minnesota politician and a member of the Minnesota Senate representing District 23, which includes portions of Blue Earth, Nicollet and Sibley counties in the south central part of the state. A Democrat, she was first elected to the Senate in 2006. She serves as a majority whip.
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- Kathleen J. "Kathy" Sheran is a Minnesota politician and a member of the Minnesota Senate representing District 23, which includes portions of Blue Earth, Nicollet and Sibley counties in the south central part of the state. A Democrat, she was first elected to the Senate in 2006. She serves as a majority whip. Sheran is currently a member of the Senate's Capital Investment Committee, the Energy, Utilities, Technology and Communications Committee, the Environment and Natural Resources Committee, and the Higher Education Committee (of which she is vice chair). She also serves on the Environment and Natural Resources Subcommittee for Forestry, and on the Finance subcommittees for the Health and Human Services Budget Division and the Higher Education Budget and Policy Division (of which she is also vice chair). Her special legislative concerns include health care, education, tax policy, agriculture, transportation, and the environment. Sheran is a registered nurse by profession, and an Assistant Professor of Nursing at Minnesota State University in Mankato. She is the daughter of Robert Sheran, who is a former chief justice and associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, and a former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. She graduated from Convent of the Visitation School in Mendota Heights in 1965, then attended the College of Saint Teresa in Winona, receiving her B.S. in Nursing. She later earned her M.S. degree at Mankato State University (now called Minnesota State University). Sheran has been active in Mankato city government for many years. She served briefly as mayor, and was a member of the city council for 16 years, during which time she was council president and Mayor Pro Tem. She is a former member of the city's Civil Service Commission, the Economic Development Authority, the Housing Redevelopment Authority, and the Human Rights Commission. Sheran has also served on various state and local boards and committees. She was a member of the Minnesota Governor's Judicial Selection Commission and the Minnesota Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Immanuel-St. Joseph's Hospital in Rochester, which is an owned affiliate of the Mayo Clinic. She is also co-chair of Generations of Care, a community partnership in support of Immanuel-St. Joseph's Heart and Cancer Centers. She also hosts "Community Conversations," a public access cable television show in the Mankato area.
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- Kathleen J. "Kathy" Sheran is a Minnesota politician and a member of the Minnesota Senate representing District 23, which includes portions of Blue Earth, Nicollet and Sibley counties in the south central part of the state. A Democrat, she was first elected to the Senate in 2006. She serves as a majority whip.
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