Melissa Rooker
{{Short description|American politician}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}}
{{BLP sources|date=January 2024}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Melissa Rooker
|image =
|caption =
|state_house = Kansas
|district = 25th
|term_start = January 14, 2013
|term_end = January 14, 2019
|preceded = Barbara Bollier
|succeeded = Rui Xu
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1964|6|29}}
|birth_place = Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
|death_date =
|death_place =
|party = Republican
|education = University of Kansas
|spouse = Tom Rooker
|children = 2
}}
Melissa Rooker (June 29, 1964) is a Republican and former member of the Kansas House of Representatives and formerly the director of development of Malpaso Productions.
Biography
Rooker was raised in Fairway, Kansas.{{cite web|url=http://melissarooker.com/about-me/bio/|title=Bio|publisher=Melissa Rooker for State Representative|access-date=2014-03-17}} She graduated from Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village, Kansas, and the University of Kansas, and is married with two children.
Film career
Rooker became director of development of Malpaso Productions in 1995. Previously, she had been an assistant to the company's founder, Clint Eastwood.
Political career
Rooker was a member of the Kansas House of Representatives until 2019.{{Cite web|url=https://shawneemissionpost.com/2018/11/16/final-results-have-challenger-rui-xu-defeating-incumbent-rep-melissa-rooker-by-121-votes-75219/|title=Final results have challenger Rui Xu defeating incumbent Rep. Melissa Rooker by 121 votes|first=Jay|last=Senter|date=November 16, 2018}} She is a Republican.{{cite web|url=http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2013_14/members/rep_rooker_melissa_1/|title=Representative Melissa Rooker|publisher=Kansas Legislature|access-date=2014-03-17}}
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Category:People from Prairie Village, Kansas
Category:Republican Party members of the Kansas House of Representatives
Category:Women state legislators in Kansas
Category:Filmmakers from Kansas
Category:University of Kansas alumni
Category:21st-century American women politicians
Category:People from Johnson County, Kansas
Category:21st-century members of the Kansas Legislature
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