Sandy Praeger

Sandy Praeger is the Republican Kansas Insurance Commissioner. She was first elected on November 2 2002. Her term began January 13 2003. She was re-elected in 2006 to the same position. Commissioner Praeger is responsible for regulating all insurance sold in Kansas and overseeing the nearly 1,700 insurance companies and 65,000 agents licensed to do business in the state. [ [http://www.ksinsurance.org/about/aboutKid.htm Kansas Insurance Department, About KID] , retrieved 2007-08-04] She is considered a possible candidate for Governor of Kansas in 2010.

Praeger is also the current president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, and has been their spokesman in state insurance regulatory response to the financial crisis of troubled insurance giant AIG. [ [http://www.naic.org/Releases/2008_docs/AIG_protection.htm POLICYHOLDER PROTECTION IS TOP PRIORITY - AIG's State-Regulated Insurance Subsidiaries Are Solvent] , NAIC, retrieved 2008-09-18]

Past offices

*Kansas State Senate, elected 1992, 1996, 2000 [http://www.sandypraeger.org/ Sandy Praeger Campaign web site] "Meet Sandy" section, and [http://www.campaignsitebuilder.com/templates/displayfiles/tmpl57.asp?SiteID=826&PageID=11621&Trial=false Meet Sandy] , retrieved 2007-08-04]
*Kansas State Legislature, 1 term
*Mayor of Lawrence, Kansas, 1986-1987
*Lawrence City Commission, 1985-89

Education

*University of Kansas, alumna

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