Denise Majette

Denise Majette

Denise L. Majette (born May 18, 1955 in New York City ) is an American politician . Between 2003 and 2005 she represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Denise Majette was born in Brooklyn and studied at Yale University until 1976 . After completing a law degree at the University of Durham in North Carolina and being admitted to the bar in 1979, she began working in her new profession. She later taught law at Wake Forest Law School in Winston-Salem . Between 1993 and 2002, Majette was a judge at the DeKalb County District Court in Georgia.

Politically, she joined the Democratic Party . In the 2002 congressional election , she was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of Georgia , where she succeeded Cynthia McKinney on January 3, 2003 , against whom she had prevailed in the Democratic primary. Since she refused to run again in 2004, she was only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until January 3, 2005 .

Instead of running for re-election to the House of Representatives, she applied unsuccessfully for a seat in the US Senate in 2004 ; it was defeated by the Republican Johnny Isakson . In Congress, she was considered a liberal MP.

Web links

• Denise Majette in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)