Elissa Slotkin

Elissa Slotkin

Elissa Blair Slotkin (born July 10, 1976 in New York City , New York ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party . She has represented the state of Michigan in the United States House of Representatives since January 3, 2019 .

Professional background

Elissa Slotkin was born in New York City and grew up on a farm in Holly , Michigan , between the cities of Flint and Detroit . She attended Cranbrook Kingswood School in Bloomfield Hills . After graduation, she began studying sociology at Cornell University , which she completed in 1998 after four years with a Bachelor of Arts . She then studied international relations from 2001 to 2003 at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University , from which she graduated with a Master of Arts .

Parallel to her studies, she studied at the American University in Cairo , the Arab language , where they could be certified 2,001th

After working as a translator for Swahili during her student days , she took on this position for the US Department of the Interior as an intern in 2002, before joining the CIA in 2003 as a political analyst . From 2005 she was Senior Assistant to the Director of National Intelligence , and from 2007 to 2009 she was also Chief of Staff of the Iraq Policy Department.

She then moved to the Department of Defense , where she joined the staff of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in 2011. Under him she was an advisor on Middle East policy. From 2014 she was Deputy Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, and later between 2015 and 2017, she herself held this position under President Barack Obama . In 2017, she left the Department of Defense and moved back to the farm she grew up on. There she founded the consulting firm Pinpoint Consulting.

politics

In the summer of 2018, she announced that she would run for the 8th seat of the state of Michigan in the 116th United States Congress in November 2018, challenging MP Mike Bishop , who was in his second term as Congressman from 2015 . One of the reasons they were motivated was that Bishop voted to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act . In the Democratic primary election for the seat, she prevailed over law professor Christopher Smith with 70% of the vote. In the congressional election she prevailed with 50.6% of the vote against Bishop, who could unite about 13,000 fewer votes with 46.8%. The seat went to a Democratic candidate for the first time since 2001.

She took her oath of office on January 3, 2019 and has been a member of the United States House Committee on Armed Services since then .

Since 2019 she has been a member of the Transatlantic Task Force of the German Marshall Fund and the Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt Foundation .

Private

Slotkin is married to ex-combat helicopter pilot and Colonel Dave Moore. They met in Baghdad and now live on Slotkin's parents' farm in Holly. Slotkin is the stepmother of two grown daughters.

Web links

• Elissa Slotkin in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Biography at Project Vote Smart
• Slotkin at Ballotpedia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kyle Melinn: Yes, a Democrat Could be our next member of Congress. Her name is Elissa Slotkin. Her game is beating Mike Bishop. . In: City Pulse , May 3, 2018. 
2. ^ Democrat Elissa Slotkin tells of mother's ovarian cancer in new ad (en) . 
3. ^ Elissa Slotkin wins Michigan Congress seat, Mike Bishop concedes . In: Detroit Free Press , November 7, 2018. 
4. ↑ Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt Foundation and German Marshall Fund establish “Transatlantic Task Force”. Accessed April 27, 2020 (German). 
5. ↑ Jack Lesse Berry: Hot dogs, the CIA, and Congress . In: Metro Times , April 25, 2018. 
6. ↑ Mark Cavitt: ELECTION 2018: Elissa Slotkin Q&A . In: The Oakland Press , October 22, 2018.