birth_place party profession office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name university
cunnamulla , queensland liberal agriculture member and pastoral region of the western australian legislative council for mining 27 november 1957 22 may 2013 mark lewis -lrb- politician -rrb-
 21 may 2017 mark lewis university agricultural college -rrb- and university of western sydney - hawkesbury of queensland - gatton campus -lrb- formerly gatton
mark lewis -lrb- politician -rrb-

mark william lewis -lrb- born 27 november 1957 -rrb- was elected to the western australian legislative council as a liberal member for mining and pastoral region at the 2013 state election .
he took his seat on 22 may 2013 in the 39th parliament .
prior to his election , lewis was involved in agricultural development projects particularly water resource developments .
immediately prior to this he held various regional management roles also with the western australian department of agriculture and food .
born in cunnamulla in queensland , he moved with his family when he was 6 years old to central queensland where he grew up on a mixed farming and cattle property at ` moola ' near anakie , west of emerald .
he attended the one teacher primary school at anakie and subsequently went to rockhampton boys grammar school to complete high school .
he went back home to the property and after a couple of years there started working for the australian wheat board -lrb- awb -rrb- eventually holding the position of officer-in-charge and classifier of various receival depots in and around central queensland .
following the awb he went to the queensland agricultural college -lrb- now queensland university - gatton campus -rrb- at gatton , west of brisbane ; where he completed an associate diploma in stock and meat inspection in 1981 .
in 1982 he commenced with the veterinary services branch of the queensland department of primary industry -lrb- qdpi -rrb- as a stock inspector where he worked in brisbane , roma , birdsville , windorah and quilpie ; principally working on the brucellosis and tuberculosis eradication campaign .
he then moved to north queensland , again with the qdpi , to charters towers as the district stock inspector and was subsequently transferred to mackay where he became district manager .
while in charters towers and mackay , lewis completed his masters in applied science at the university of western sydney - hawkesbury .
during this time he maintained an interest in the family properties including buying cattle and sheep stations north and north-west of cunnamulla .
the family partnership was dissolved when his parents moved to toowoomba to retire .
lewis accepted a position in january 1996 in carnarvon , western australia as a program manager for the southern rangelands with the then department of agriculture western australia .
he held a range of regional management position including regional manager/director for the rangelands region of wa .
during this time he also completed a number of management qualifications including post graduate certificate in management -lrb- university of western sydney -rrb- and advanced diploma in management -lrb- university of western australia -rrb- .
during his career lewis has held a range of statutory roles and ministerial appointments including as a member of the pastoral lands board of wa , the rural adjustment and finance corporations and manager and director of the gascoyne murchison strategy .
lewis has held positions of branch secretary and treasurer , member and deputy chair of the rural policy committee and state vice-president of the wa liberal party .
he was elected to the 39th parliament in may 2013 .
