Meet Meg
Meg Luger-Nikolai has spent her career fighting for workers, strengthening public schools, and standing up for the values that make Minnesota a great place to live. Now, she’s stepping forward to bring that same smart, passionate, and relentless energy to the Minnesota Legislature – because our community deserves a representative who delivers for our schools, our workers, and our families.
As a labor lawyer and mother, she understands there is no shortage of work to do on workers’ rights, education funding and policy, health care that works for all, immigrant protections, support for aging Minnesotans, climate action, and more.
Meg and her husband, Pete, have called this district home since 2002. It’s where they’ve raised their three kids who attend St. Paul Public Schools. The DFL has been her political home for her entire adult life. She has spent years knocking doors, organizing voters, and helping elect leaders at the local, state, and national level who make life better for working people.
A lifelong Minnesotan, Meg attended the University of Minnesota as an undergraduate, a law student, and as a graduate student in public policy. As an attorney, she has fought for workers and unions in nearly every sector and helped advance policy changes that make it easier for workers to organize. Her legal work has given her a deep understanding of how decisions at the Legislature shape people’s lives – and why we need leaders who will stand firm when our rights are under attack.
Meg is recognized as a Certified Labor and Employment Specialist, and was most recently elected a fellow in the College of Labor Employment Lawyers by her peers. She is recognized as a builder of bridges, who balances dedicated advocacy with pragmatic consensus building. In 2019, the Governor appointed her to the Public Employment Relations Board as a labor representative.
She has chaired the Labor and Employment Section of the Minnesota State Bar Association, led the Minnesota Urban Debate League for eight years and currently serves on the Board of Central Minnesota Legal Services.
Through every role, Meg has stayed focused on what matters most: improving people’s lives and building a Minnesota where everyone can thrive.
