Erin Healy
{{short description|American politician from South Dakota}}
{{BLP sources|date=July 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Erin Healy
| office = Minority Leader of the South Dakota House of Representatives
| term_start = January 14, 2025
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| predecessor = Oren Lesmeister
| successor =
| state_house1 = South Dakota
| alongside1 = Kameron Nelson
| district1 = 10th
| term_start1 = January 8, 2019
| term_end1 =
| predecessor1 = Tom Holmes
| successor1 =
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| party = Democratic
| education = University of Nebraska, Lincoln (BA)
University of South Dakota (MA)
}}
Erin Healy is an American politician. She has served as a South Dakota Democratic Party member in the South Dakota House of Representatives since 2019 from district 10. Healy serves as one of eleven Democratic members of the South Dakota Legislature.
Career
= 2018 election season =
In 2018, Healy ran for one of two South Dakota House of Representative seats in district 14. She ran against incumbents, Larry Zikmund{{Cite web|title=Home|url=https://www.larryzikmund.com/|access-date=November 1, 2020|website=Larry Zikmund for Senate}} and Tom Holmes,{{Cite web|title=Meet Tom|url=https://www.tomforsd14.com/meettom|access-date=November 1, 2020}} On November 6, 2018, Healy won the election along with Larry Zikmund.
= 2019–2020 legislative session =
On January 5, 2019, Healy was sworn in at the South Dakota capitol building. She was chosen as the House Minority Whip along with Oren Lesmeister.{{cite news|last=Cory Allen|first=Heidelberger|date=November 19, 2018|title=Dems Pick Erin Healy as House Minority Whip|publisher=Dakota Free Press|url=http://dakotafreepress.com/2018/11/19/dems-pick-erin-healy-as-house-minority-whip|access-date=March 29, 2020}} For the 2019 legislative session she served as a member of the House Education and House Health and Human Services Committees.{{Cite web|url=https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/1624/Committees|title=Representative Erin Healy - 2019|website=South Dakota Legislature}} In that session, Healy prime sponsored four bills and co-sponsored forty-one.{{Cite web|url=https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/1624/Bills|title=Representative Erin Healy - 2019|website=South Dakota Legislature}} For the 2020 legislative session, she again served as a member of the House Education and House Health and Human Services Committees.{{Cite web|url=https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/1662/Committees|title=Representative Erin Healy - 2020|website=South Dakota Legislature}} In that session, Healy prime sponsored seven bills and co-sponsored thirty-three.{{Cite web|url=https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/1662/Bills|title=Representative Erin Healy - 2020|website=South Dakota Legislature}}
= 2020 election season =
In 2020, Healy ran for re-election against fellow Democrat, Mike Huber, and Republicans Taylor Rehfeldt and Tom Holmes in district 14. One day after the general election on November 4, 2020, Healy officially won re-election along with new member Taylor Rehfeldt.
= 2021 and 2022 legislative session =
Healy's second term as a member of the South Dakota House of Representatives began on January 12, 2021. For the 2021 legislative session, she served as a member of the House Education and House Health and Human Services Committees. Healy also served as a member of the House Legislative Procedure and Joint Legislative Procedure Committees.{{Cite web|url=https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/1800/Committees|title=Representative Erin Healy - 2021|website=South Dakota Legislature}} In this session, she prime-sponsored six bills and co-sponsored seventeen bills.{{Cite web|url=https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/1800/Bills|title=Representative Erin Healy - 2021|website=South Dakota Legislature}} For the 2022 legislative session Healy again served as a member of the House Education, House Health and Human Services, House Legislative Procedure, and Joint Legislative Procedure Committees.{{Cite web|url=https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/3948/Committees|title=Representative Erin Healy - 2022|website=South Dakota Legislature}} In this session, she prime-sponsored four bills and co-sponsored seventeen bills.{{Cite web|url=https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/3948/Bills|title=Representative Erin Healy - 2022|website=South Dakota Legislature}}
= 2022 election season =
In 2022, Healy ran for the South Dakota House of Representatives in district 10. In the election, she ran against fellow Democrat Kameron Nelson, and Republicans John Mogen and Tom Sutton.{{cite web | url=https://ballotpedia.org/Erin_Healy | title=Erin Healy }} On November 8, 2022, Healy won re-election to the South Dakota House of Representatives along with new member Kameron Nelson.
= 2023 legislative session =
Healy's third term as a member of the South Dakota House of Representatives began on January 10, 2023. She was chosen as the House Assistant Minority Leader.{{Cite web|url=https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4368/Detail|title=Representative Erin Healy - 2023|website=South Dakota Legislature}} For the 2023 legislative session, Healy served as a member of the House Health and Human Services and House State Affairs Committees.{{Cite web|url=https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4368/Committees|title=Representative Erin Healy - 2023|website=South Dakota Legislature}} She also served as a member of the House Legislative Procedure and Joint Legislative Procedure Committees. As of February 5, 2023, Healy has prime-sponsored five bills and co-sponsored thirty-two bills.{{Cite web|url=https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4368/Bills|title=Representative Erin Healy - 2023|website=South Dakota Legislature}}
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Category:21st-century American women politicians
Category:21st-century members of the South Dakota Legislature
Category:Date of birth missing (living people)
Category:Democratic Party members of the South Dakota House of Representatives