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COMMITTED TO FAMILY AND COMMUNITY
Senator Karen Morgan
was first elected to the Utah Legislature in 1998 and served in
the House of Representatives for 10 years. She was then elected
to the Utah Senate in 2008. She is a
homemaker and former high school teacher. She was born and
raised in Utah and has lived in the Cottonwood Heights/Granite
area for 28 years. She graduated with honors from the
University of Utah with degrees in Secondary Education and
Family / Consumer Studies. She currently serves on a variety of
community and legislative boards and commissions. Karen and her
husband, Baird, are the proud parents of five sons (one
deceased), three daughters-in-law and are the grandparents of
one granddaughter.
Senate Committee
Assignments: Public
Education Appropriations; Economic Development & Workforce
Services; Education Standing Committee; Natural Resources; National Conference of State
Legislatures Education Committee.
House Committee
Assignments: Public
Education Appropriations; Economic Development & Workforce
Services; Transportation; Business & Labor; Ethics; Retirement;
Local Issues Task Force; National Conference of State
Legislatures Education Committee.
Affiliations:
National Chair-Women in Government Foundation, Washington DC;
Founder-University of Utah Reading Clinic; Utah Governor's
Literacy Commission; Vice-President, Utah Children's Reading
Foundation; GOED Quality Workforce Task Group; Utah Coalition
for Civic, Character & Service Learning Board of Directors; Utah
Jump$tart Coalition Board of Directors; 3Rs Advisory Board;
University of Utah Alumni Association; Daughters of Utah
Pioneers; Utah PTA.
Senator
Morgan founded the University of Utah Reading Clinic
through legislation she passed in 1999. This statewide Clinic
provides assessments and tutoring for students, as well as
professional development for teachers. She also passed
legislation that requires elementary schools to form Reading
Achievement Plans in grades K-3 and establish periodic measures
to track and report reading progress. Rep. Morgan was appointed
to the Governor’s Commission on Literacy and worked with former
Governor Olene Walker to craft and promote the message,
"
Read With a Child 20 Minutes a Day."
Senator Morgan helped to spearhead
the creation of Cottonwood Heights.
She co-founded "Neighbors for Cottonwood Heights" and served as
an original member of the Board of Trustees, co-sponsoring a
feasibility study to protect the area from annexation while the
viability of a new city was determined. She worked to secure
city boundaries, and her efforts paid off with the eventual
creation of Cottonwood Heights
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