Evie Hudak
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| Member of the Colorado Senate from the 19th district |
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In office January 7, 2009 – November 27, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Sue Windels |
| Succeeded by | Rachel Zenzinger |
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June 10, 1951 New York City |
| Political party | Democratic |
Evanne "Evie" R Hudak (born June 10, 1951 in New York City) is a former state legislator in the Colorado State Senate, and a member of the Democratic Party. Elected to the Colorado State Senate in 2008, Hudak represented Senate District 19, which encompasses Arvada and Westminster, Colorado. She resigned from the Colorado Senate on November 27, 2013 when facing a vote to recall her from office.
Hudak was born in Brooklyn, New York. She went to New York State University at Stony Brook and graduated with a B.A. in the Arts.
Hudak was a high school and college teacher for around 20 years.
She served for several years as the state director of the School Readiness Quality Improvement Program in the Colorado Department of Human Services.
In 2000, Hudak was elected to the State Board of Education, representing the 2nd Congressional District, where she served for 8 years.
Hudak had no opposition in the August Democratic primary, but faced Republican Libby Szabo in the November 2008 general election. Hudak's candidacy was endorsed by the Arvada Press, the Wheat Ridge Transcript, and the Westminster Window, while her Republican challenger was endorsed by the Denver Post. Hudak won the legislative race with 51 percent of the popular vote.
For the 2009 session of the Colorado General Assembly, Hudak was named to seats on the Senate Education Committee, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the Senate Finance Committee, where she served as vice-chair.
In the 2009 session, Senator Hudak sponsored an education bill that aligned the state’s three different education accountability systems, based on student longitudinal growth. She also sponsored a major bill on parent involvement in education. Another of her bills was one that clarified the governance of library districts by refining some of the language in the law and requiring the creation of maps of all library districts. For this bill, she received the Friend of Libraries Award from the Colorado Library Association.
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