Senator Tom George

Tom George was elected to the 20th District of the Michigan Senate in 2002 after serving one term in the House of Representatives. The 20th Senate District includes all of Kalamazoo County and Antwerp and Paw Paw Townships in Van Buren County.

As a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee Tom serves on four sub-committees. He is Chair of the History, Arts and Libraries (HAL) sub-committee and Vice-Chair of the Higher Education and the Department of Labor and Economic Growth Subcommittees, and he is a member of the Department of Community Health (DCH) subcommittee. Tom also serves as Chair of the Senate Health Policy Committee and is a member of the Joint Capitol Committee.

Tom has received Legislator of the Year awards from the Michigan Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, the Michigan Association of Health Plans, and Scenic Michigan as well as a Friend of Diabetes and Kidney Health Care award from the American Diabetes Association, the Michigan Diabetes Outreach Network and the National Kidney Foundation of Michigan.

Born and raised in Flint, Tom George graduated from Powers Catholic High School in 1975. He received his M.D. from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1982, where in 1985 he also completed a post-graduate residency in the specialty of Anesthesiology. He is certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology, and has held his State of Michigan medical license since 1982.

A practicing physician in the Kalamazoo area since 1985, Tom served as the medical director for Hospice of Greater Kalamazoo from 1996 until 2001. Outside of his medical practice Tom has numerous other pursuits. He is a past-president of the Historical Society of Michigan, a long time volunteer at Portage Cable Access, and has participated in medical missions to Africa and the Caribbean.

Tom and Sandy George met at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and were married in 1981. They have three children: Lauren, Maria and Matthew. The family resides in Texas Township in Kalamazoo County.

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