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Haley Stevens
Haley Stevens


Haley Stevens assumed office as U.S. representative for Michigan's 11th Congressional District on Jan. 3, 2019. On April 22, 2025, Stevens announced that she is running for the U.S. Senate. Stevens was born on June 24, 1983. She earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s degree in social policy and philosophy from American University. She worked in the Obama administration as chief of staff for the Auto Task Force inside the U.S. Department of Treasury. She was involved in setting up the Office of Recovery for Automotive […]
Marilyn Strickland
Marilyn Strickland


Marilyn Strickland has served as member of the U.S. House of Representatives since Jan. 3, 2021, representing Washington's 10th Congressional District. Strickland was born in Seoul, South Korea. She currently lives in Tacoma, Washington. She earned a B.A. in sociology from the University of Washington and an M.B.A. from Clark-Atlanta University. She has served as the campaign chair of the United Way of Pierce County. She has also served as a trustee of the Tacoma Public Library and Annie Wright Schools, and a member of The Black Collective and the […]
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 […]
Ellen Tauscher
Ellen Tauscher


Ellen Tauscher served as the U.S. under secretary of state for arms control and international security from 2009 to 2012, then as special envoy for strategic stability and missile defense in 2012. Previously, she represented California's 10th District in the United States House of Representatives from January 1997 to June 2009. Tauscher was born November 15, 1951, in Newark, New Jersey. In 1974, she completed her Bachelor of Arts in early childhood education from Seton Hall University. During her 14-year career on Wall Street, Tauscher was one of the first […]
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 […]
Dina Titus
Dina Titus


Alice Costandina "Dina" Titus served Nevada's 3rd Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives from 2009 to 2011. In 2012, she was elected as the U.S. Representative for Nevada's 1st District. Titus was born May 23, 1950, in Thomasville, Georgia. She received her bachelor's degree from the College of William & Mary, a master's degree from the University of Georgia, and a doctorate from Florida State University. Following graduation from Florida State University, Titus taught at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas from 1979 until her retirement with […]
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. […]
Norma Torres
Norma Torres


Norma J. Torres assumed office in the U.S. House of Representatives in California's 35th District in January 2015. Torres was born April 4, 1965, in Guatemala and immigrated to the United States when she was five years old. She received her bachelor's degree in labor studies from the National Labor College in Silver Springs, Maryland. Torres worked as a 911 dispatcher from 1990 to 2008. In 1994 she led a campaign to require the hiring of bilingual 911 operators. She was an active member of AFSCME and Local #3090's of […]
Xochitl Torres Small
Xochitl Torres Small


Xochitl Torres Small served as the U.S. representative for the 2nd Congressional District of New Mexico from 2019-2021. She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as deputy secretary of agriculture on July 11, 2023, the first Latina to hold that position. Torres Small grew up in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She graduated from Georgetown University, then returned to Las Cruces and served as field representative for Senator Tom Udall. She went on to earn her law degree from the University of New Mexico and practiced natural resource and […]