Candidate · State Senate, District 8
Kenneth D. Massey
What this job does: Your district's vote in the Michigan Senate. Senators write and vote on state laws and the state budget, and approve or reject many of the governor's appointments. A term is four years, with a limit of 12 years total in the Legislature.
- Current office
- Farmington Hills City Council member (since 2019, per BallotReady)
- Occupation
- Consultant; Wayne State University faculty and venture development director
Background
- Former mayor of Farmington Hills; Farmington Hills City Council member since 2019. source: ballotready.org
- Senior director of venture development and assistant professor of pharmacology at Wayne State University since 2014; earlier an associate director at Pfizer (1998-2007). source: ballotready.org
- Doctorate in physiology from the University of Texas (1989); bachelor's in biology and chemistry from Eastern Michigan University (1983). source: ballotready.org
- Helped found Farmington SAFE, a mental health awareness group. source: ballotready.org
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