Heather Wilson (politician)

Heather Wilson (2017)

Heather Ann Wilson (born December 30, 1960 in Keene , New Hampshire ) is an American politician . Between 1998 and 2009 she represented the first constituency of the state of New Mexico in the US House of Representatives . She was the United States Secretary of the Air Force from May 16, 2017 to May 31, 2019 .

Family, education and work

Heather Wilson attended Keene High School and then graduated from the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs in 1982 . Until 1985 she also studied at Oxford University in England . She remained a member of the US Air Force until 1989 .

Between 1989 and 1991, Wilson was a division chief on the United States National Defense Council . Her area of ​​responsibility was European defense and arms control.

Heather Wilson is married to Jay Hone.

Political career

From 1995 to 1998, Wilson was New Mexico’s Family Secretary.

After the death of Congressman Steven Schiff on March 25, 1998, Heather Wilson was elected to the US House of Representatives in the by-election with a 5 percent advantage over Phil Maloof . She stepped on 23 June 1998 its mandate and decided the regular election in November 1998 and the further elections until 2006 itself, but joined the 2008 election not again and retired from the January 3, 2009 Congress of. Instead, she applied to the 2008 election for a seat in the US Senate , but was defeated in the Republican area code ( Primary ) Congress colleague Steve Pearce .

During her tenure in Congress, she served on the Energy and Trade Committee and the Intelligence Committee. She initially voted in 90 percent of the votes with her party and for the administration of President George W. Bush . Over the years, she took a more critical stance on the federal government , but still voted for the course of her party and the president in around 70 percent of the votes.

In March 2011, she announced that she would run for the mandate of the no longer-running Democrat Jeff Bingaman in the 2012 Senate election . Within the party, she prevailed in the primary against ex- Governor Gary E. Johnson . In the main election she was defeated by the Democrat Martin Heinrich .

In the Trump administration , she was Secretary of the Air Force from May 16, 2017 to May 31, 2019 .

Web links

Commons : Heather Wilson  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Heather Wilson (politician) in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Heather Wilson in nndb (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Catalina Camia: Democrat Heinrich wins NM Senate race. In: USA Today , November 7, 2012.
2. ↑ Ryan Browne: Trump's pick for Air Force secretary confirmed. In: CNN.com , May 7, 2017.