Greg Clausen has been an educator for over 40 years, serving the Bloomington and Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools as a classroom teacher, coach, assistant principal, high school principal and district office administrator. Greg is a first term Minnesota Senator serving the communities of Apple Valley, Rosemount, Coates and northeast Lakeville. He attended Augsburg College earning a degree in the Social Sciences and Education and then went on to receive both a M.A. Degree in Education and ED.
He has served as a member on the Dakota county Affordable Housing Coalition, Heading Home Dakota Committee to end homelessness and as Board Vice Chair of Dakota Woodlands, a homeless shelter in Eagan. He is also a board member for the Rocky Mountain Region of Thrivent Financial and a former member of the University of Minnesota College in the Schools Advisory Board. He has received Distinguished Service Awards fro the Lake Conference Association of Schools, Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools, and the City of Rosemount. Greg has also received the Rosemount High School Legacy Award for his commitment in advancing fine and performing arts programs while principal.
Since entering office in 2013, he has received the 2015 Minnesota Psychiatric Society Paul Wellstone Mental Health Advocacy Award, named 2014 Outstanding Legislator by the Minnesota School Boards Association, honored as the 2014 National Alliance on Mental Illness-NAMI Legislator of the Year, 2013-2014 Champion for Racial Equality-Voices for Racial Justice, 2014 Friend of Public Education-
Association of Metropolitan School Districts-AMSD and 2013 National Alliance on Mental Illness-NAMI Leadership Award on Children's Mental Health.
Greg Services on the Higher Education and Workforce Development Fiscal and Policy Committees as Vice Chair, Senate Health and Human Ser5vices Fiscal Committee, E-12 Education Policy Committee and the Sate Departments and Veterans Fiscal Committee. Greg and his wife Roberta live in Apple Valley and have three adult children and five grandsons.
