Alice Mann (56B)

Alice Mann is an American physician and politician serving in the Minnesota Senate for District 50 as a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. She previously represented District 56B in the Minnesota House from 2019 to 2021. Originally from Brazil, she moved to Richfield, Minnesota, at age 8 and identifies as Latina. Mann practices family and emergency medicine at Northfield Hospital’s Lakeville Family Health Clinic and serves as Primary Care Medical Services Director for Wayside. She lives in Edina with her husband and three sons.

Notable achievements include chief-authoring legislation for paid family and medical leave , co-authoring a ban on shadow noncompete clauses , reducing healthcare fees for families with disabled children, securing tobacco cessation funding, increasing doula reimbursements, expanding metro mobility to Lakeville, regulating pharmacy benefit managers to lower drug costs, and establishing the Chloe Barnes Rare Disease Advisory Council. She provided medical care internationally in Tanzania, Mali, Nicaragua, Haiti, Brazil, Zimbabwe, a Syrian refugee camp, and post-Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.

Education and Political Experience

Education: MD from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee; MA from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; residency at Mayo Clinic Health System in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Political Experience: Elected to Minnesota House in 2018, defeating incumbent Roz Peterson, and served 2019-2021 as one of few physician-legislators. Elected to Minnesota Senate in 2022 with 63% of the vote against Republican Doug Fulton; serving 2023-2027 on committees including Education Policy and Health and Human Services. Currently in her first Senate term during the 94th Legislative Session .