Senate Committees:

79th General Assembly – Ways and Means (vice chairman); Judiciary, Criminal Jurisprudence and Corrections; Labor and Management Relations; and Roads, Highways and Transportation.

80th General Assembly – Appropriations; Judiciary; Labor and Management Relations; Municipal Corporations, Railroads and Private Corporations (chairman); Roads, Highways and Transportation (vice chairman); State Fiscal Affairs; and Ways and Means (vice chairman).

81st General Assembly – Labor and Management Relations (vice chairman); Judiciary; Municipal Corporations, Railroads, Private Corporations, Urban Affairs and Housing; Roads, Highways, Industrial Development, Energy and Environment; and State Departments and Governmental Affairs.

82nd General Assembly – State Departments and Governmental Affairs (chairman); Labor and Management Relations (vice chairman); Accounts, Assignments and Clerical Force; Appropriations; Gubernatorial Appointments; Judiciary; and Municipal Corporations, Railroads, Private Corporations, Urban Affairs and Housing.

83rd General Assembly – Governmental Affairs (chairman); Appropriations; Gubernatorial Appointments; Judiciary; Labor and Industrial Relations; and Public Employees Retirement (statutory).

84th General Assembly – Aging and Mental Health (chairman); Governmental and Veterans’ Affairs; Gubernatorial Appointments; Judiciary; Labor and Industrial Relations; and Public Employees’ Retirement (statutory).

85th General Assembly – Aging, Mental Health and Elderly Affairs (chairman); Public Employees’ Retirement (chairman, statutory); Appropriations; Governmental and Veterans’ Affairs; Judiciary; Labor and Industrial Relations; and Transportation.

86th General Assembly – Aging, Families and Mental Health (chairman); Appropriations (vice chairman); Apportionment; Gubernatorial Appointments; Insurance; Labor and Industrial Relations; Transportation; and Urban Affairs and Industrial Development.

Henry A. Panethiere served the people of the 11th District (part of Jackson County). Born in Kansas City, he attended the University of Missouri where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics. Senator Panethiere also attended the university’s School of Law, earning a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II in Spain and Tinian, attaining the rank of major-infantry. Senator Panethiere worked as an attorney. He was first elected to the Senate in 1976. (Democrat)

Official Manual of the State of Missouri: 1991-1992