Bio For Louis Irwin, Candidate For State Senator District 29

NAME: Louis Irwin.

OFFICE YOU SEEK: State Senate, district 29.

AGE: 67.

OCCUPATION:Retired professor and science writer.

EDUCATION: B.A. (Texas Tech Univ.) and Ph.D. (Univ. of Kansas).

NUMBER ONE CAMPAIGN FOCUS: Access to health care by all.

WHAT SETS YOU APART FROM YOUR OPPONENT?

(1) legislative experience, elected 4 terms to a 24-member Board of Aldermen, and (2) skill set of listening, collaborating, and persuasion, as a biomedical scientist, academic chairman, and teacher for 40 years.

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE THAT QUALIFIES YOU FOR THE POSITION YOU SEEK:

8 years as a legislator at the municipal level, co-creator of the Border Biomedical Research Center, social service activism as a Court Appointed Special Advocate for Children, and academic leader skilled at achieving goals through consensus and collaboration – essential strategies in the state senate

DESCRIBE A MOMENT THAT CHANGED YOUR LIFE:

Meeting my future wife of 42 years, Carol, in graduate school

DO YOU HAVE A WEBSITE, TWITTER OR FACEBOOK ACCOUNT?

OTHER CONTACT INFORMATION FOR VOTERS: By phone at 915-497-7267,by mail at 600 Skydale Drive, El Paso, TX 79912.