Evan Jenkins

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Evan Jenkins (2015)

Evan Hollin Jenkins (born September 12, 1960 in Huntington , West Virginia ) is an American politician . From January 2015 to September 2018, he represented the state of West Virginia in the US House of Representatives . He ran unsuccessfully in the preselection for the US Senate in 2018 and became the interim judge in the 2018 West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals appointed.

Career

Evan Jenkins studied at the University of Florida in Gainesville until 1983 . After a subsequent law degree at the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in Birmingham ( Alabama ) and his admission to the bar in 1987, he began to work in this profession. He also served as executive director of the West Virginia State Medical Association and co-chair of the state health committee at the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce. He also taught law at Marshall University in his hometown of Huntington.

Politically, he initially joined the Democratic Party . Between 1994 and 1998 he served in the West Virginia House of Representatives ; from 2002 to 2014 he was a member of the State Senate . In July 2013, he joined the Republican Party . In the 2014 election to the US House of Representatives , Jenkins was elected as their candidate in the third congressional electoral district of West Virginia to Congress in Washington, DC , where he succeeded long-time incumbent Nick Rahall on January 3, 2015 , whom he defeated in the election . Jenkins was confirmed in his mandate in November 2016 and is a member of the 115th Congress of the United States , which met on January 3, 2017 . Jenkins is or was a member of the Grants Committee and three subcommittees.

Jenkins announced in May 2017 that he would be running for the seat that Democrat Joe Manchin has held in the November 2018 election to the US Senate . In the Republican area code for this Senate seat on May 8, 2018, he lost 29 percent of the vote to the previous Attorney General of the state, Patrick Morrisey , who received 35 percent. Jenkins did not stand for re-election in the House of Representatives , so his term ends on January 3, 2019. A large number of politicians from both parties competed for his previous seat; for Republicans sat Carol Miller by, for the Democrats Richard Ojeda , both previously of the State Legislature belonged.

Jenkins is running for the November 2018 election to serve as a judge in the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals . On August 25, 2018, Governor Jim Justice appointed him on an interim basis until the election for this judge's post. Jenkins withdrew from his congressional mandate effective September 30, 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Simone Pathé: West Virginia Rep. Evan Jenkins Running for Senate. In: Roll Call , May 8, 2017 (English).
  2. ^ Mason Adams: A New Kind of West Virginia Democrat. In: The New Republic , September 22, 2017; West Virginia Primary Election Results. In: The New York Times , May 9, 2018; Taylor Stuck: WV lawmakers Ojeda, Miller to face off for Congress. In: The Herald-Dispatch , May 9, 2018.
  3. ^ Justice appoints Jenkins and Armstead to West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. In: The Herald-Dispatch , August 25, 2018.
  4. ↑ Evan Jenkins to Resign Seat on Sunday, Head to West Virginia Supreme Court. In: Roll Call , September 27, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Jenkins, Evan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jenkins, Evan Hollin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Huntington , West Virginia