Peg became a council woman for the city of Lakeland Minnesota in 1987. Peg served with the city council, and as Commissioner of public safety. Peg was appointed by the council as interim Mayor in 1991. As the first woman mayor of Lakeland Peg concisely won re-election completing her second term as Mayor.

Peg was elected to the Minnesota House or representatives in 1994. During her 3 terms as a Minnesota legislator She served on numerous committees and task forces. During her tenure at the Minnesota legislature Peg chaired the Local Government and Metropolitan Affairs Committee, was Co-Chair of the Aggregate Resource Task Force. She served on the Judiciary and Judicial Finance Committees, Environment and Natural Resource Finance committee, Government Operations Committee and Trade and Economic Development Committee.

After three successful terms in the legislature, Peg chose to not run for a fourth term. Peg was contacted by several of her now clients shortly after leaving the Legislature for her expertise in the political realm. Over the last 5 years She has developed a successful Lobbying practice that has included clients such as Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Minnesota Counseling Association, Hennepin County Environmental Services, and Southern Minnesota Civil Legal Services. Outside of politics for the past 25 years Peg has worked with Larsen Properties in many facets of real estate.

In Addition, Peg has worked on legislative/Lobbying issues for:

• Foreign Trade Commission
• Rochester School District
• The Consortium of School Districts of the Western Suburbs
• Minnesota Aids Project
• Bois Forte Indian Reservation, on education and health care issues
• Rochester Art Center Bonding projects
• Asian Pacific Cultural center
• Minneapolis Radiation Oncology
  
• Minnesota Environmental partnership