served as premier. Personal life After resigning as NDP leader, Broten became the executive director of Saskatchewan Egg Producers, an industry marketing group. In 2004 Broten married Ruth Megan Eliason, a music therapist with Palliative Care Services in the Saskatoon Health Region who was raised on a family farm in the Stewart Valley area near Swift Current. They live in Saskatoon with their four daughters. Their oldest child, a son was born preterm in 2009 and died the same day. Broten's grandfather, Hans Broten, served in the Legislative Assembly in the 1960s under Tommy Douglas and Woodrow Lloyd. Electoral record References External links Opposition Caucus Website 1978 births Living people Canadian people of Norwegian descent University of Saskatchewan alumni Simon Fraser University alumni Politicians from Regina, Saskatchewan Politicians from Saskatoon Saskatchewan New Democratic Party MLAs Leaders of the Saskatchewan CCF/NDP 21st-century Canadian politicians