Finance Committees. When the DFL retook the majority after the 2012 election, she became chair of the Health and Human Services Policy Committee for the 2013-14 biennium. She also served on the Health and Human Services Finance Committee, the Civil Law Committee, and the Taxes Committee. When the Republicans became the majority after the 2014 election, she was the DFL health care lead on the HHS Finance Committee 2015-2017, also serving on the HHS Reform and the Ways and Means Committees, and the DFL lead on the HHS Reform Committee 2017-2018, also serving on the HHS Finance and Ways and Means Committees. Since the DFL took control of the Minnesota House in 2019, she is chair of the Health and Human Services Finance Division, which controls a third of the state’s budget. She also serves on the HHS Policy Committee and the Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Division (A Finance Division or Division is the Minnesota equivalent of an Appropriations Subcommittee in Congress and the Ways and Means Committee is the equivalent of the Appropriations Committee.) Liebling supported Senator Bernie Sanders during the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries, breaking with state party leadership. She supported Elizabeth Warren in the 2020 primaries while Warren was running. Candidate for Governor 2018 On April 2, 2017 Liebling announced her candidacy for Governor of Minnesota, since Governor Mark Dayton was not seeking re-election. She finished fifth in the Minnesota DFL gubernatorial preference poll in February 2018 with about 6% of the vote statewide and dropped out of the race the next month. Personal life She married her husband, Dr. Mark Liebow, shortly after law school, and moved to the Chicago area, where her three children were born. In 1994, she moved to Rochester, where her husband was hired as a consultant for the Mayo Clinic, and she began a solo law practice focused on criminal law. Election history References External links Rep. Tina Liebling official Minnesota House of Representatives website Rep. Tina Liebling official campaign website Minnesota Public Radio Votetracker: Rep. Tina Liebling Project Votesmart: Rep. Tina Liebling Profile Tina Liebling on Twitter Tina Liebling on Facebook 1953 births Living people Politicians from Minneapolis Democratic Party members of the Minnesota House of Representatives Politicians from Rochester, Minnesota University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts alumni Boston University School of Law alumni Women state legislators in Minnesota American women lawyers 21st-century American politicians 21st-century American women