Len Biernat | |
State House: | Minnesota |
District: | 59A |
Term Start: | January 7, 1997 |
Term End: | January 3, 2005 |
Predecessor: | John Sarna |
Successor: | Diane Loeffler |
Party: | Democratic Farmer Labor Party |
Birth Date: | 24 November 1946 |
Birth Place: | Hennepin County, Minnesota |
Alma Mater: | Mankato State College (BS) Hamline University (JD) College of St. Thomas (MA) New York University (LLM) |
Occupation: | Professor, 1st Lieutenant, legislator, veteran |
Spouse: | Christine Jax (divorced 2006) |
Children: | 4 |
Residence: | Minneapolis, Minnesota |
Lenard Francis Biernat (born November 24, 1946) is a Minnesota politician and former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A member of the Democratic Farmer Labor Party, he represented District 59A, which includes a portion of Hennepin in the northwestern Twin Cities metropolitan area.
Biernat served in the United States Army. He served on the Minneapolis School Board. Biernat served four terms in the House of Representatives: 80th, 81st, 82nd, and 83rd.[1]
He is Emeritus Professor of Law at Mitchell Hamline School of Law
Biernat's father Thaddeus Lewis Biernat served in the Minnesota Legislature a decade prior to Biernat's first term. He has one daughter with his first wife, and three step daughters with his second wife, Christine Jax, divorced in 2006. He is retired and lives in Bonita Springs Florida.