Experience and Public Service
Council Committees. Since her election in 2005, Elizabeth’s council committee and board assignments have positioned her to lead on key issues for the City and 8th Ward. - Chair, Elections Committee (where Elizabeth has played a key role in implementing Instant Runoff Voting/Ranked Choice Voting).
- Vice Chair, Transportation and Public Works Committee
- Ways & Means (budget) Committee
- Intergovernmental Affairs Committee
- Chair, Information Systems Policy Steering Group
- Board Assignments.
- Chair, Youth Coordinating Board (As chair of this joint-powers board with city, county, school board, and park board members, Elizabeth steered the YCB back to an action-oriented agenda at a time when inter-governmental cooperation is more important than ever)
- I-35W Solutions Alliance (chair, Legislative Subcommittee)
- Noise Oversight Committee to the Metropolitan Airport Commission
- Midtown Community Works Partnership
- Vice-Chair, Metropolitan Emergency Services Board
- Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee
- Joint City County Lead Task Force.
- Civilian Review Authority Task Force
- Community Service
- Member, Aliveness Project capital campaign steering group
- Board member, WE WIN Institute
- Volunteer, Interfaith Center for Worker Justice
- Volunteer lawyer, Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights
- Board member, Somali Women’s Association
- Amicus Advisory Committee, National Employment Lawyer’s Association
- President, Minnesota Chapter for National Employment Lawyer’s Association
- President and volunteer violinist, Civic Orchestra of Minneapolis
- Vice-Chair, Hennepin History Museum
- Employment. Prior to her election to the City Council in Nov 2005, Elizabeth was a partner in the law firm of Hedin Goldberg & Glidden, P.A., where she represented plaintiffs in worker’s rights and civil rights cases for over ten years.
- DFL Activism. Elizabeth is an active participant and leader in the DFL. In 2002, she co-authored with her mentor Andrea Rubenstein a ground-breaking amicus brief on behalf of the Minnesota Women’s Campaign Fund, objecting to the gendered effects of redistricting plans for state legislative offices in Minnesota. She has volunteered for many campaigns, working on grassroots organizing and fundraising for numerous DFL candidates.
- Education
- BA in English and Government & International Affairs, Augustana College (1990)
- Juris doctor, University of Iowa College of Law (1993)
- Masters of Public Affairs, Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota (2004)
- American Marshall Memorial Fellow (2004) (selected by the German Marshall Fund, for this program exposing young leaders to transatlantic policy issues)
