Christine Ann "Chris" Eaton (born 1954) is a politician from Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

 and a member-elect of the Minnesota Senate

Minnesota Senate

The Minnesota Senate is the upper house in the Minnesota Legislature. There are 67 members, half as many as are in the Minnesota House of Representatives. In terms of membership, it is the largest upper house of any state legislature. Each Senate district in the state includes an A and B House...

 who will represent District 46, which includes the cities of Brooklyn Center

Brooklyn Center, Minnesota

As of the census of 2010, there were 30,104 residents in Brooklyn Center. The racial makeup of the city was 49% White, 26% African American, 1% Native American, 14% Asian, 0.07% Pacific Islander, 5% from other races, and 4% from two or more races...

 and Brooklyn Park

Brooklyn Park, Minnesota

According to the 2010 census, there were 75,781 people residing in the city. The racial makeup of the city was 52% White, 24% African American, 1% Native American, 15% Asian, 42 residents identifying themselves as Pacific Islander, 4% from other races, and 4% from two or more races...

 in Hennepin County

Hennepin County, Minnesota

Hennepin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Minnesota, named in honor of the 17th-century explorer Father Louis Hennepin. As of 2010 the population was 1,152,425. Its county seat is Minneapolis. It is by far the most populous county in Minnesota; more than one in five Minnesotans live...

, which is in the Twin Cities

Twin cities

Twin cities are a special case of two cities or urban centres which are founded in close geographic proximity and then grow into each other over time...

 metropolitan area. She won a special election on October 18, 2011, held to fill a vacancy that arose upon the death of long-time Senator Linda Scheid

Linda Scheid

Linda J. Scheid was a Minnesota politician and a member of the Minnesota Senate who represented District 46, which includes portions of the northwestern suburbs of Hennepin County in the Twin Cities metro area. A Democrat, she was first elected to the Senate in 1996, and was re-elected in 2000,...

 on June 15, 2011.

A Democrat, Eaton is a registered nurse and a member of the Minnesota Nurses Association

Minnesota Nurses Association

The Minnesota Nurses Association is a labor union representing Registered Nurses in the state of Minnesota. They are affiliated with National Nurses United, a national nurses union promoting guaranteed nurse to patient staffing ratios....

. She has been Director of Health Services at Mental Health Resources, Inc., since 2009, and previously worked as a nurse at Ramsey County Mental Health Initiative from 1998 to 2008, and as a nurse and human services tech at Anoka Metro Regional Treatment Center from 1991 to 1998. She graduated from Anoka-Ramsey Community College

Anoka-Ramsey Community College

Anoka-Ramsey Community College, with campuses in Cambridge and Coon Rapids, has been a provider of higher education and training in the north suburban area of Minneapolis/St...

, where she earned her nursing degree.

Eaton and her husband, Tom Willson, are the parents of two children. He is the current mayor of Brooklyn Center.

External links

• Chris Eaton for Senate Web Site