Republican Senator SUE REZIN has represented the 38th District in the Illinois House of Representatives since she took the oath of office on December 14, 2010. In 2015 she was appointed Assistant Leader for the Illinois Senate Republican Caucus and in 2021, became Deputy Minority Leader. Senator Rezin presently serves as the Minority Spokesperson on the Senate Energy and Public Utilities, Senate Education and Senate Human Rights committees. She is a member of the Executive, Health, and Insurance committees and sits on the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules. Additional committee and task force appointments have included the Education Funding Reform Commission, Education Funding Advisory Committee, the Young Adult Heroin Use Task Force, the Social Security Retirement Pay Task Force, the Illinois Veterans Advisory Council, the Task Force on Hydraulic Fracturing Regulation, the Illinois Electric Vehicle Advisory Council, and the Unemployment Insurance Task Force.
As an active member of the bipartisan National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), she collaborates with legislators across the country to find viable solutions to problems states bilaterally face and has a seat on the NCSL’s 63-member Executive Committee and Task Force on Energy Supply.
Senator Rezin lives in Morris, Illinois, with her husband, Keith, and their four children. For nearly two decades, she has been the co-owner and manager of her family’s real estate company.
Community service has always been extremely important to Senator Rezin. For over twenty years, she served as a wish grantor and volunteer for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Northern Illinois. She is a former vice president of the Community Foundation of Greater Grundy County and a board member of We Care of Grundy County. She helped establish the Grundy County Summer Internship Program in conjunction with the Grundy Area Vocational Center and the Grundy Economic Development Council, helping dozens of students obtain high-quality internships with local employers. “The goal is to not only provide students with a real-world, hands-on experience at great companies,” she explained, “but to entice students to stay in the area by working here.” She has also volunteered her time with the Edgar Fellows Program, where students participate in an intense four-day executive leadership-training program.
In addition, Senator Rezin also established the Illinois Valley Flood Resiliency Alliance (IVFRA), an organization that brings communities, local governments, and emergency personnel together to prepare for floods and other extreme weather events through education, communication, and the purchase of flood prevention materials. Part of the resiliency plan for the region is the IVFRA’s ongoing efforts to secure grant funding for communities to prepare for, and prevent flood losses.
Senator Rezin earned her degree in International Business and Political Science at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, and graduated with a minor in Hispanic Studies. She is a graduate of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government’s Senior Executives in State and Local Government Program. In 2020, she was selected as a 2020 Women of Excellence Award honoree by the National Foundation for Women Legislators