OFFICE OF SEN. BOWERS

TOPEKA – State Sen. Elaine Bowers this week announced the members of her staff who will assist her in the 2019 Legislative session will be Legislative Office/Committee Assistant Randi Walters, of Topeka; and intern Caitlin O’Toole, of Prairie Village.

This will be Walters’ third year serving as Bowers’ office assistant. Prior to working for Bowers, Randi was employed for 30 years at Southwestern Bell before working at the Capitol where she has assisted several legislators for over 15 years.

Caitlin O’Toole is currently a third-year undergraduate student at the University of Kansas. She was raised in Prairie Village, Kansas and graduated from St. Teresa’s Academy in 2016.

For the 2019 Legislative Session, Bowers will serve as chair of the Ethics, Elections and Local Government Committee, as well as a member of the Legislative Post Audit Committee, Capitol Preservation Committee, Transportation Committee, Utilities Committee, Judiciary Committee, and Interstate Cooperation Committee.

Bowers was first elected to the Senate in 2012, representing District 36. The district includes Cloud, Jewell, Lincoln, Mitchell, Osborne, Ottawa, Republic, Rooks, Russell, Smith, and Washington counties, as well as parts of Phillips and Marshall counties.

Prior to serving in the Senate, Bowers served in the Kansas House of Representatives from 2007 through 2012, representing House District 107. Today she represents over 71,000 people in north central, west, and eastern Kansas along the border of Nebraska.

The 36th District is the second largest in the state, 13 counties, over 10,500 square miles with Concordia and Cloud County as the largest city and county.