John Hottinger is a Minnesota attorney and politician and a former member and majority leader of the Minnesota Senate.
11 Facts About John Hottinger
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In 1994, Hottinger ran unsuccessfully for the US House and was defeated by Republican Gil Gutknecht.
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John Hottinger was chosen majority leader in 2003 after Senator Roger Moe retired to run for governor.
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In January 2004, he was selected the national legislator of the month by the Center for Policy Alternatives one month after Illinois legislator Barack Obama won the honor John Hottinger has been quoted as saying the two of them have since taken "divergent" paths.
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John Hottinger chaired the Legislative Committee to Review Administrative Rules and Senate Subcommittees on Insurance, Consumer Protection, Rulemaking, and Higher Education, Senate Budget, Personnel, Ethical Conduct, Permanent and Joint Rules, Intergovernmental Relations and Property Taxes.
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John Hottinger was active in the [Council of State Governments] and chaired the [Midwestern Legislative Conference] in 2001.
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John Hottinger became the national chair of CSG in 2004 in leadership partnership with Governor [Frank Murkowski] of Alaska, who served as CSG president.
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John Hottinger was suspended for a minimum of 18 months, petitioned to lift the suspension on June 17,2010 and the Minnesota Supreme Court returned him to practice on January 12,2011 finding him "prepared and morally qualified" to practice law.
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John Hottinger was the project director for the Citizen Jury on Election Recounts concentrating on the process used in Minnesota in the recount of the US Senate race between Al Franken and Norm Coleman in 2009.
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John Hottinger was a leader as the initial vice president for legal and government affairs for "The Minnesota World's Fair", the organization which launched the effort to bring the World's Fair to Minnesota in 2022 or 2023.
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John Hottinger has been active in non-profits, including serving on the executive committee and as chair of the Northstar Chapter of the Sierra Club, a member of the board and executive committee of the Northeast Midwest Institute in Washington, DC and as a member of the board of the Somali Justice Center in Minneapolis.