There's been a recent flurry of legislative retirements! The Library's new Legislative Retirements page has had four additions in the past two weeks -- Senator Kathy Sheran, Senator Roger Reinert, Senator Dave Thompson, and Senator John Pederson. Others have announced their retirement plans and there will likely be more to come.
You may notice that many of the names on our retirements list are from the Senate. It's too soon to tell if 2016 will be a landmark turnover year for the Senate or the House but we'll be sure to track statistics on legislative turnover as we've done since 1970.