List of Senators

Born on 8th May 1963 in Mikołów (Silesian Province).
Graduated from the Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology in the University of Silesia (1997) and from the Institute of Higher Religious Culture at the Catholic University of Lublin. She completed a postgraduate course in enterprise and management (2000) and in EU project management (2003) in the University of Economics in Katowice.
Began her professional career as a teacher in a primary school in Pszczyna. Between1997 and 1999 – the director of the Public Upper Silesian Union Secondary School in Katowice.
Worked in a consulting company as deputy head responsible for schooling and EU projects, dealt with projects connected with acquisition and use of EU funds.
1998 – 2002 – deputy to Silesian Provincial Parliament, between 2002 and 2005 – member of the Pszczyna District Council.
Since 2010 she is the president of „Self-Government Academy” Foundation.
Deputy to the Fifth Term Sejm: member of the European Union Affairs Committee, the Territorial Self-Government and Regional Policy Committee and the special Committee “Solidary State” (Solidarne Państwo). Chairwoman of the Polish-Austrian Parliamentary Group and deputy chairwoman of the Polish-German Parliamentary Group. In the Sixth Term Sejm was deputy chairwoman of the Territorial Self-Government and Regional Policy Committee, member of the Public Finance Committee. In the Seventh Term Sejm was deputy chairwoman of the Territorial Self-Government and Regional Policy Committee.
Member of the Law and Justice political party.
Married, has two children.