Tom Holland is a Democratic member of the Kansas Senate

Kansas Senate

The Kansas Senate is the upper house of the Kansas Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. State of Kansas. It is composed of 40 Senators representing an equal amount of districts, each with a population of at least 60,000 inhabitants. Members of the Senate are elected to a four year term....

, representing the 3rd District since 2009. He was a member of the Kansas House of Representatives

Kansas House of Representatives

The Kansas House of Representatives is the lower house of the Kansas Legislature, the legislative body of the U.S. State of Kansas. Composed of 125 state representatives from districts with roughly equal populations of at least 19,000, its members are responsible for crafting and voting on...

 from 2003 to 2008. Currently, he is the Minority Caucus Chairperson.

Committee assignments

Holland serves on these legislative committees:

• Assessment and Taxation
• Commerce
• Joint Committee on Economic Development
• Financial Institutions and Insurance
• Joint Committee on Information Technology
• Interstate Cooperation

Major donors

The top contributors to Holland's 2008 campaign, according to the National Institute on Money in State Politics:

Kansas Democratic Party, Tom and Barbara Holland (personal campaign contributions), Senate Democratic Committee of Kansas, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee of Kansas, Carpenters Local 1329 union

His largest donor group was political party committees.

2010 Governor's race

He announced on February 17, 2010 that he would seek the 2010 Democratic Nomination to be the next Kansas Governor. Holland was defeated by Sam Brownback

Sam Brownback

Samuel Dale "Sam" Brownback is the 46th and current Governor of Kansas. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1996 to 2011, and as a U.S. Representative for Kansas's 2nd congressional district from 1995 to 1996...

 in the general election.

Professional

Holland has run his own small business since 1994. Holland Technologies is a project management services provider that specializes in IT project Management. Holland Technologies has worked with various government agencies in information technology projects. The business is a majority woman owned enterprise; Tom's wife Barbara owns the business.

External links

• Senator Tom Holland official Kansas Legislature site
• Tom Holland/Kelly Kultala for Governor/Lt. Governor official campaign site
• Holland Technologies