Lois Frankel

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Lois Frankel (2013)

Lois Jane Frankel (born May 16, 1948 in New York City ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party . Since 2013 she has represented a strip of the south-east coast of Florida north of Miami in the House of Representatives of the United States .

Family, education and work

Lois Frankel attended Boston University until 1970 , from which she graduated with a bachelor's degree. She then studied at the Law School of Georgetown University in Washington, DC , where she obtained the Juris Doctor in 1973 . 1973/74 she was an employee (law clerk) of the federal judge David Norman. After her admission in 1973, she worked as a lawyer in West Palm Beach from 1974 .

Frankel is Jewish . She has a son and lives in West Palm Beach.

Political career

Between 1986 and 1992 and again from 1994 to 2002 she was a member of the Florida House of Representatives , first in the 83rd and then in the 85th constituency. There she acted from 1994 to 2002 as group leader of the Democrats. In the 1992 election, she ran unsuccessfully in the 23rd Congressional electoral district for the US House of Representatives. In 2002, she initially applied for the office of governor of Florida. She later withdrew this candidacy. Between 2003 and 2011 she served as Mayor of West Palm Beach.

In the 2012 election , Frankel was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington in the 22nd  congressional electoral district of Florida, where she succeeded Allen West on January 3, 2013 , who ran after redesigning the constituencies in the 18th district. She prevailed against the Republican Adam Hasner (45.3%) with 54.7% of the vote and was re-elected in 2014 . After the Florida Supreme Court ordered a further redesign of the constituencies, Frankel ran in the 2016 election in the new 21st congressional constituency of her state, which geographically largely corresponds to her previous one. It is located on the southeast coast of Florida north of the metropolis of Miami and includes the cities of Pompano Beach and Boca Raton . She was re-elected in 2018 .

She is or was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Committee on Transport and Infrastructure, as well as three sub-committees.

Web links

Commons : Lois Frankel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Lois Frankel's Biography. In: Vote Smart.
personal data
SURNAME Frankel, Lois
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frankel, Lois Jane (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City