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Betty Sutton
Betty S Sutton


Betty S. Sutton is a judge of the Ohio Ninth District Court of Appeals and assumed office on February 9, 2021. Her term ends on February 8, 2027. Formerly she represented Ohio's 13th District in the House of Representatives from 2007 - 2013. Sutton was born July 31, 1963, in Barberton, Ohio. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Kent State University in 1985 and her Juris Doctorate at the University of Akron in 1990. Prior to serving in Congress, Sutton served on the Barberton City Council from 1991 to […]
Emilia Sykes
Emilia Sykes


Emilia Sykes assumed office as a U.S. representative for Ohio's 13th congressional district on Jan. 3, 2023. Sykes was born in Akron, Ohio, on Jan. 4, 1986. She received a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Kent State University and a law degree and master’s degree in public health from the University of Florida. Before serving in political office, Sykes worked as an administrative staff advisor at the Summit County Fiscal Office and as a law clerk to the chief justice of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of […]
Kathy Szeliga
Kathy Szeliga


Kathy Szeliga was the 2016 Republican nominee for the United States Senate in Maryland to replace retiring Senator Barbara Mikulski. Szeliga was defeated by Democrat, Chris Van Hollen. Szeliga was born October 10, 1961, in Baltimore, Maryland. She was raised in a military family, her father a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army. After working a series of blue-collar jobs, she graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in elementary education from Towson University in 1994. She began working as a teacher in Baltimore City Public Schools […]
Mary Taylor
Mary Taylor


Mary Taylor was Ohio's 65th lieutenant governor from 2011 to 2019. As lieutenant governor, Taylor was named to lead CSI Ohio—the "Common Sense Initiative"—to reform Ohio's regulatory policies, as well as to serve as the director of the Ohio Department of Insurance. She resigned as Insurance Director on March 31, 2017. An Ohio native, Taylor received a bachelor's degree in accounting and a master's degree in taxation from the University of Akron. In 1990, she began her career at Deloitte and Touche, an accounting firm. In 1994, she joined the […]
Claudia Tenney
Claudia Tenney


Claudia Tenney is the U.S. representative for New York's 22nd congressional district. She served from 2017-2019, lost her seat in the 2018 election, and regained the seat in the 2020 election. Tenney was born February 4, 1961. She is the daughter of former New York State Supreme Court Justice John R. Tenney. She graduated from Colgate University in 1983 and from the Taft College of Law at the University of Cincinnati. Tenney is co-owner and legal counsel to Mid-York Press, Inc., a commercial printing and manufacturing firm started by her […]
Mary Throne
Mary Throne


Mary Throne served in the Wyoming House of Representatives from 2007 to 2016. She ran unsuccessfully for governor of Wyoming in 2018. Throne was born and raised in Campbell County, Wyoming. She received a Bachelor of Arts in history from Princeton University and a Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School. After law school, Throne returned to Wyoming. She served as an assistant Wyoming attorney general from 1992 to 1999, and was elected to the Wyoming state legislature in 2007, representing state house district 11. She served as the minority […]
Rashida Tlaib
Rashida Tlaib


Rashida Tlaib has served in the U.S. House of Representatives for Michigan since 2019, representing the 13th District until 2023 and the 12th District since then. Tlaib, a Palestinian American, and Ilhan Omar, U.S. representative from Minnesota and a Somali American, were the first Muslim women elected to Congress. Tlaib previously served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2009 to 2014, only the second Muslim woman to be elected to a state legislature in the United States. Tlaib was born July 24, 1976, in Detroit, Michigan, to Palestinian immigrants. […]
Andria Tupola
Andria Tupola


Andria Tupola has been a member of the Honolulu City Council since January 2021. Tupola served in the Hawaii House of Representatives from 2014 to 2018. She was the 2018 Republican nominee for governor of Hawaii. Tupola was born December 6, 1980, in Kahuku, Hawaii. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in music education from Brigham Young University in 2005, a Master of Arts in music education from the University of Hawaii, Manoa in 2011, and a Ph.D in music education at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. Tupola served as […]
Caryn Tyson
Caryn Tyson


Caryn Tyson is a member of the Kansas State Senate. In 2018, she was a candidate to represent Kansas’ 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, losing in the primary. Tyson was born in Parker, Kansas, on February 15, 1963. She earned two Bachelor of Science degrees (mathematics and computer science) from Kansas State University before completing a Master of Science in engineering management from the University of Kansas. Before her time in the public sphere, she worked in the IT field for over 24 years, including space […]
Linda Upmeyer
Linda Upmeyer


Linda Upmeyer served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 2003-2021. She was the first woman to serve as speaker of the Iowa House. Upmeyer received her Bachelor of Science in nursing from the University of Iowa and her Master of Science in nursing from Drake University. Upon obtaining these degrees, Upmeyer went on to pursue a career as a registered nurse practitioner. From 2008-2010, Upmeyer served as House minority whip. In 2010, she served as House majority leader. Through her committee memberships, Upmeyer served as chair of the Human […]