Heather Edelson is a County Commissioner on the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners and was elected in May of 2024. She represents District 6 of Hennepin County, which encompasses 16 cities, including Hopkins, Edina, Minnetonka, Orono, Excelsior and Wayzata. Commissioner Edelson's topic will be a Hennepin County Update. Her latest newsletter can be found HERE.Edelson received her undergraduate degree from Hamline University where she majored in Legal Studies and received her Masters Degree in Social Work from the University of Minnesota. Edelson worked as a Clinical Therapist at outpatient clinics and served on many boards and commissions that advocated to improve education outcomes and human rights including serving as a Guardian ad Litem.
Edelson served 3 terms as a State Representative in the Minnesota House of Representatives. At the Minnesota Capitol, she served as Vice Chair on the Ways and Means and Public Safety Committees and was a member of the Education Finance, Human Service Policy and Environment Policy and Finance committees. For three years Edelson ran the Civility Caucus that worked to improve and strengthen bipartisan work at the legislature. Much of her policy work at the Capitol focused on literacy, the intersection of mental health, public safety, and health and human service policy.
Edelson resides in Edina with her husband and three sons.