{{Short description|American politician (born 1956)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Barb Yarusso | image = Barb Yarusso 2013.jpg | state_house = Minnesota | district = 42A | term_start = January 8, 2013 | term_end = January 3, 2017 | predecessor = ''redrawn district'' | successor = Randy Jessup | party = Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1956}} | birth_place = Duluth, Minnesota | death_date = | death_place = | alma_mater = University of Minnesota (B.Ch.E.)<br />University of Wisconsin–Madison (Ph.D.) | occupation = adjunct assistant professor | spouse = Dave | children = 3 |}} '''Barb Yarusso''' (born 1956) is a Minnesota politician and former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, she represented District 42A, which included portions of Ramsey County, Minnesota in the north-central Twin Cities metropolitan area.
==Early life, education, and career== Yarusso grew up primarily in Columbia Heights, Minnesota, and graduated from Columbia Heights High School. She earned a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and Ph.D. in the same field from University of Wisconsin–Madison.<ref name="education">{{cite web | url=http://barbyarusso.org/education | title=Education | publisher=Barb Yarusso Volunteer Committee | accessdate=March 8, 2013}}</ref> After college, she worked in the lab as an engineer for General Mills and as an industrial trainer and self-employed engineering consultant for HB Fuller, 3M, and Ecolab, as well as teaching at the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul, Hill-Murray School, the University of Minnesota, and as a freelance tutor.<ref name="experience">{{cite web | url=http://barbyarusso.org/experience | title=Experience | publisher=Barb Yarusso Volunteer Committee | accessdate=March 8, 2013}}</ref>
==Minnesota House of Representatives== Yarusso was first elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 2012 to an open seat created by post-census redistricting. She lost re-election to Republican Randy Jessup in 2016.
==Electoral history== {{Election box begin | title=Minnesota House of Representatives 42A district election, 2012<ref>{{cite web|url=http://minnesotaelectionresults.sos.state.mn.us/Results/StateRepresentative/1?districtid=437 |title=State Representative District: 42A |publisher=Minnesota Secretary of State |accessdate=August 26, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023307/http://minnesotaelectionresults.sos.state.mn.us/Results/StateRepresentative/1?districtid=437 |archivedate=March 4, 2016 }}</ref>}} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party |candidate = '''Barb Yarusso''' |votes = 12,122 |percentage = 53.30 |change = N/A }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Republican Party of Minnesota |candidate = Russ Bertsch |votes = 10,591 |percentage = 46.56 |change = N/A }} {{Election box end}}
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== External links == {{MN-legdb|15421}} * [http://www.votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=141043 Project Votesmart - Rep. Barb Yarusso Profile]
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