Adam Kline
Adam Kline | |
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| Member of the Washington Senate from the 37th district | |
| Assumed office 2000 | |
Adam Kline is the State Senator for Washington's 37th district, comprising part of South Seattle, six precincts in Renton and two in Tukwila. He has served the 37th District for 12 years. He chairs Senate Judiciary Committee, and is a member of the Government Operations and Elections Committee and the Rules Committee.
Before entering law school, Kline worked as a merchant seaman and as a newspaper reporter. He is a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement. He worked for SNCC in Greenwood, Mississippi, during the 1964 Freedom Summer and, after law school, returned to Greenwood in 1972 to work for North Mississippi Rural Legal Services.[1] Recently Kline has been in the spotlight for his role in sponsoring a bill to bring an assault weapons ban to Washington state.
Kline practiced law 32 years before retiring in 2004 to work for the Laborers Union. He was a cooperating attorney with the ACLU and is active with NARAL and Washington Conservation Voters.
He is married to Laura Gene (Genie) Middaugh, who serves as a judge on the King County Superior Court.[2]
In February 2013, it was reported that Kline was a sponsor of a bill that would allow police to conduct warrantless searches in the homes of gun owners once per year, with a punishment of up to one year in jail for citizens who did not comply.[3]
Notes
- ^ Veteran of the Civil Rights Movement: Adam Kline on crmvet.org, July 24, 2001. Accessed online 24 May 2007.
- ^ http://www.adamkline.org/about/about.htm
- ^ Misstep in gun bill could defeat the effort, Seattle Times, February 17, 2013
External links
- Sen. Kline's official page
- Sen. Kline's Personal Page
- State lawmakers to seek ban on sales of semi-automatic weapons
- 37dems.org
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