Mee Moua
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| Member of the Minnesota Senate from the 67th district |
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In office February 4, 2002 – January 3, 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Randy Kelly |
| Succeeded by | John Harrington |
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June 30, 1969 Xieng Khouang, Laos |
| Political party | Democratic Farmer Labor Party |
| Spouse(s) | Yee Chang |
| Children | 3 |
| Residence | Saint Paul, Minnesota |
| Alma mater |
Brown University Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs University of Minnesota Law School |
Mee Moua (RPA: Qaav Ruom, born June 30, 1969 in Xieng Khouang, Laos), is a Hmong American politician, and is the former president and executive director of the Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC). She served as the vice president for strategic impact initiatives at the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) from 2011–12, and as a member of the Minnesota state senate from 2002-11. On February 3, 2017, Moua announced her departure from AAJC to "spend more time with her family, for her children and their future, and being the right kind of mom for them."
Moua's father was a medic in the Vietnam War. At the end of the war, her family fled to Thailand when Moua was five years old. In 1978 her family, along with other Hmong refugees, moved to the United States.
Moua obtained an undergraduate degree from Brown University, a master's degree in public policy from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Minnesota Law School.
Moua was the first Hmong American woman elected to a state legislature, where she served as a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. She represented District 67 in the Minnesota Senate, which includes portions of the city of Saint Paul in Ramsey County, which is in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. On May 16, 2010, she announced that she would not run for a third term.
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