Carol Ronen

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Carol Ronen
Member of the Illinois Senate
In office
January 2000 February 2008

Carol is an active player in Democratic politics at the local, state and federal level. In her role as 9th C.D. Committeewoman, in 2008, she organized volunteers to travel to Iowa in support of her former state senate colleague Barack Obama. On November 4, 2008, she coordinated an election day phone back to Indiana voters. [ citation needed ]

Unopposed in each race, she was elected to a four-year term as the 48th Ward Democratic Committeeman in February 2008 and to a four-year term (her fourth) in February 2010 as Democratic State Central Committeewoman for the 9th congressional District where she works closely with longtime friend and ally Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky.

At the national level Carol was elected as a delegate to the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Democratic Conventions. In 2004 she was appointed to represent Illinois on the Democratic National Committee. In 2008 Carol was a super delegate at the Democratic convention that nominated her friend and former Senate colleague Barack Obama. [ citation needed ]

Helping women get elected to office is a driving interest. To further this goal Carol helped found Women's Voices, Women's Votes, an Illinois state political action committee that supports the election of progressive Democratic women in the Illinois General Assembly and she is on the Advisory Board of Illinois Women in Leadership, a group which mentors young women who seek to run for office.

Other

In 2005 she was inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame as a Friend of the Community. [8]

References

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  6. Harry, Jim (Secretary of the Senate), ed. (January 12, 2000). "Appointment" (PDF). Regular Session Senate Transcript. 91 (62). Illinois Senate: 2. Retrieved July 6, 2021.
  7. Rossi, Tony, ed. (January 12, 2000). "Resignations and Appointments". Journal of the Illinois House of Representatives. 91 (76). Illinois House of Representatives . Retrieved July 6, 2021.
  8. 1 2 "Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame". Archived from the original on 2015-10-17. Retrieved 2015-05-14.
  9. Joravsky, Ben. "Forty-Eighth Ward Follies", Chicago Reader, November 15, 2007.
  10. "Official election results". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2021-07-07.