Susan Brooks

Susan Brooks (2013)

Susan Wiant Brooks (born August 25, 1960 in Fort Wayne , Indiana ) is an American politician . She has represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives since 2013 .

Career

Susan Brooks attended Homestead High School in her hometown of Fort Wayne and then studied at Miami University in Oxford ( Ohio ) until 1982 . After a subsequent law degree at the School of Law at Indiana University in Indianapolis and her admission to the bar in 1985, she began to work in this profession. At the same time, she embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . She was Deputy Mayor of Indianapolis under Mayor Stephen Goldsmith in 1998 and 1999 . She mainly dealt with the topics of crime, law and social welfare. Between 1999 and 2001, Brooks worked for the Indianapolis-based law firm Ice Miller ; from 2001 to 2007 she was a federal attorney for the southern district of Indiana. Between 2007 and 2011 she worked for the Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis.

In the 2012 congressional election , Brooks was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fifth constituency of Indiana with 58 percent of the vote against Democrat Scott Reske , where she succeeded Dan Burton on January 3, 2013 . After two re-elections so far in 2014 and 2016, she can continue to exercise her office today. Your new legislative period runs until January 3, 2019 with the option of a further candidacy in 2018.

Brooks voted on October 29, 2019 as one of 11 members of the House of Representatives against the resolution classifying the murder and deportation of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide.

Susan Brooks is married with two children.

swell

Re-election 2016 at Ballotpedia

Web links

Web presence at the congress
Susan Brooks in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Individual evidence

↑ H.Res. 296: Affirming the United States record on the Armenian Genocide. govtrack, October 29, 2019, accessed on October 31, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Brooks, Susan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Brooks, Susan Wiant (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	August 25, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH	Fort Wayne , Indiana

[1] H.Res. 296: Affirming the United States record on the Armenian Genocide. govtrack, October 29, 2019, accessed on October 31, 2019 .