Mindy Greiling

Mindy Greiling was a legislator from 1993 to 2013. Before that, she was an elementary school teacher, then a stay-at-home mom and eventually worked as a cancer researcher at the University of Minnesota. She ran for office first as a school board member and then a legislator. In addition to her and her son Jim being the subject of many news articles, her op-eds were published in several newspapers throughout her legislative career. She served on the national and state boards of the National Alliance on Mental Illness and has been published in a NAMI magazine. Greiling appeared on TV and radio numerous times and received scores of awards, including the national Lilly Reintegration Award for Advocacy. After she left the legislature, Greiling was a political commentator for five years on Almanac, a public affairs program on Minnesota public television. She is currently the president of a county affiliate of NAMI-MN.