Jennifer McEwen

Senator Jen McEwen was elected to the Minnesota State Senate in 2020, to represent the people of Duluth. In her election to the State Senate, McEwen successfully defeated her predecessor, a DFL incumbent senator, in part by focusing on their community’s concerns around proposed copper-sulfide mining, the importance of safeguarding Lake Superior, and climate change. McEwen is an attorney with a focus in public interest work. Most recently, she represented disabled workers denied benefits and services, and has also served as an assistant public defender, a judicial law clerk, and a legal aid attorney and program director. During her first term as state senator, McEwen has focused on protecting Minnesota's waters, the need to make a rapid, just transition to clean energy, supporting workers, advancing the cause of universal health care in Minnesota, and defending and expanding reproductive freedom. Senator McEwen was raised in Duluth and is a proud graduate of Duluth Public Schools. She lives in the home her great-grandparents built, with her husband, their two teenagers, and two silly dogs. Senator McEwen is a former president and current member of the board of the Damiano Center, and a member of the board of Center City Housing.