Speaker Spotlight: Jill Billings, Representative, Wisconsin State Assembly

Monday–Tuesday, March 30–31, 2026 | Havenwood Event Center | Sparta, WI

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Representative Jill Billings is a lifelong resident of the Driftless Region and has lived in La Crosse since 1990. Jill worked at the Friendship Program for ten years and taught English as a Second Language and Citizenship to Hmong Adults.

Before being elected to the State Assembly, she served on the La Crosse County Board for eight years. Since her election to the State Assembly in 2011, Jill has demonstrated a strong passion for child welfare, environmental protection, tourism and local economic development, and fighting for hard-working families across the state.

She collaborated with a bipartisan group of legislators in 2015 to establish the Legislative Children’s Caucus, which she now co-chairs, and she is a member of the Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board (CANPB).

Jill currently serves as the ranking Democratic member on the Assembly Committee on Children and Families and the Assembly Committee on Tourism. She is a member of the Assembly Committee on Agriculture and the Assembly Protecting Kids Task Force.

She is also the Chair of the State Building Commission Higher Education Subcommittee, a member of the Mississippi River Parkway Commission, a member of the Historical Society of Wisconsin Board of Curators, and a member of the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators Mississippi River Caucus.

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