Kathryn Swan

Kathryn Swan (born November 9, 1950) is an American politician. She has been a Republican member of the Missouri House of Representatives since 2013. Because of term limits she is not eligible to run for reelection in 2020, and she said she will run for an open senate seat being vacated by senator Wayne Wallingford.

Education and personal life Swan graduated from Central High School in Cape Girardeau, after which she earned a B.S in nursing from Southeast Missouri State University. As a nurse she has worked in a variety of areas including progressive care, employee health, infection control, administrative supervision, and as a clinical instructor. Swan is the president of JCS Wireless, a small wireless communications company with offices in Cape Girardeau, Perryville, Missouri and Chester, Illinois.

Swan is married to Reg Swan and she has two children, Regan and Maria.

Families and children In 2018, Swan proposed house bill HB1667 to established a rebuttable legal presumption of shared parenting after divorce or separation. With this bill, except in situations of child neglect or abuse children would spend equal or near equal parenting times with their mother and father. The bill passed the house with a vote of 137 to 7; it passed the senate committee, but was filibustered in the Senate. Swan reintroduced the bill in 2019, under the new name of HB229.