Renee Ellmers

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Renee Ellmers

Renee Jacisin Ellmers (born February 9, 1964 in Ironwood , Gogebic County , Michigan ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . From 2011 to 2017, she represented the second congressional district of the State of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives . In 2016 she lost her party's primary election and therefore left Congress on January 3, 2017.

Career

Renee Ellmers attended Madison High School . After that she worked at various jobs. At that time she was also trained as a medical assistant. She then studied at Oakland University in Michigan until 1990 . In the following years she worked in the medical service as a nurse and in the administration of hospitals. Between 2006 and 2010 she was a member of the Dunn Planning Committee , of which she had been chairman since 2008. In this city she also worked as a clinic director together with her husband Brent Ellmers.

In the 2010 election , Ellmers was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 2nd Congressional constituency of North Carolina , where she succeeded Democrat Bob Etheridge on January 3, 2011 , whom she had beaten by almost 1,500 votes. Your district, which the Democrats had previously held for 108 years of the last 110, was structurally markedly more republican by the redistricting of the constituencies after the 2010 census and thus secured for them.

Ellmers was a member of the Agriculture Committee and the Small Business Committee and four sub-committees. In the 114th Congress (2015–2017) she was a member of the Committee on Energy and Trade and three of its sub-committees.

After two re-elections, she performed her mandate until January 3, 2017. In the 2016 internal party primary , she lost her constituency as the first Republican woman to sit in office during that period. It was defeated by George Holding , who had previously served in the House of Representatives for the 13th Congressional constituency of the state and whose district was dissolved for election in November 2016 due to restructuring . Ellmers therefore left the Congress on January 3, 2017.

Web links

Commons : Renee Ellmers  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Draper: The League of Dangerous Mapmakers. In: The Atlantic , October 2012.
  2. ^ Lynn Bonner: George Holding Defeats Renee Ellmers in 2nd District's Incumbent Showdown. In: Raleigh News & Observer , June 7, 2016.