Manka Dhingra is the State Senator for the 45th legislative district in Washington and Deputy Majority Leader of the Senate. She is Chair of the Law & Justice committee, and a member of the Behavioral Health subcommittee and Ways & Means committee.
She has been a Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney with King County since January 2000, and is the former Chair of the Therapeutic Alternative Unit. As Chair, she supervised the Regional Mental Health court, Veterans Court and the Community Assessment and Referral for Diversion program. She helped create the 40 hour crisis intervention training for law enforcement and was a trainer at the Criminal Justice Training Commission.
She holds a JD from the University of Washington School of Law and Bachelor of Arts degrees in History and Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley.
