James Allan Barcia is an American Democratic politician from Michigan. He has served successively in the Michigan House of Representatives,the Michigan Senate,the United States House of Representatives and then again the Michigan Senate,from which he was term-limited in January 2011. He has served as County Executive of Bay County,Michigan,since January,2017.
The Human Rights Party (HRP) was a left-wing political party that existed in Michigan during the early and mid-1970s. The party achieved electoral success in Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti. It eventually expanded to include several other Michigan cities with large student populations. In 1975,the HRP became the Socialist Human Rights Party,and it later merged with the Socialist Party of Michigan.
Elizabeth Brater is a Democratic former member of the Michigan Senate,who represented the 18th district from 2003 to 2010,and served as the Assistant Minority Leader. Her district included the cities of Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti. She was previously a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 1995 to 2000.
Gerald D. Jernigan was mayor of the city of Ann Arbor,Michigan,from 1987 to 1991.
Louis D. Belcher is an American politician who served as the mayor of Ann Arbor,Michigan,from 1978 to 1985. He won office in an unusual "special election" of 1978,held after lengthy court wranglings over the disputed 1977 mayoral contest,and went on to win three more two-year terms as mayor.
Albert H. Wheeler was an American life-sciences professor and politician in Ann Arbor,Michigan. He became the city's first African-American mayor,serving in the office from 1975 to 1978.
Chris Kolb is a politician from Ann Arbor,Michigan and a former member of the Michigan State House of Representatives. A Democrat,Kolb represented the 53rd district,based in Ann Arbor,from January 2001 to January 2007. He was first elected in November 2000,and term limits prevented him from seeking a fourth two-year term in 2006. Kolb was the first openly gay member of the Michigan Legislature.
Raymond Francis Clevenger was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from the state of Michigan between 1965 and 1967.
Brenda Lawrence is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative from Michigan's 14th congressional district from 2015 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party,Lawrence served as mayor of Southfield,Michigan,from 2001 to 2015,and was the party's nominee for Oakland County executive in 2008 and for lieutenant governor in 2010. Her district covers most of eastern Detroit,including downtown,and stretches west to take in portions of Oakland County,including Farmington Hills,Pontiac,and Lawrence's home in Southfield.
The 2008 congressional elections in Michigan were held on November 4,2008,to determine who would represent the state of Michigan in the United States House of Representatives. Michigan had fifteen seats in the House,apportioned according to the 2000 United States Census. Representatives are elected for two-year terms;those elected will serve in the 111th Congress from January 3,2009,until January 3,2011. The election coincided with the 2008 U.S. presidential election.
Rebekah Lynn Warren is a former American Democratic legislator from Ann Arbor,Michigan,who represented the 55th District of the Michigan House of Representatives from January 1,2019 until January 1,2021. She was elected to this position on November 6,2018,beating Republican opponent Bob Baird,74% to 26%. Previously,she served two terms as State Representative for Michigan's 53rd District,from 2007 to 2010,and two terms in the Michigan Senate,from 2010 to 2018. She was arrested for drunk driving and fleeing police in a motor vehicle on December 26,2019.
Mark Ouimet is a Republican politician and served in the Michigan House of Representatives from the 52nd district covering Washtenaw County,Michigan for one term.
James Ananich is an American politician from the State of Michigan. He was a Democratic Party member of the Michigan State Senate from 2013 to 2023,representing the 27th district,which is located in Genesee County and includes the cities Burton,Clio,Flint,Mount Morris and Swartz Creek and the townships of Flint Township,Forest,Genesee,Mount Morris,Richfield,Thetford and Vienna. He was the minority leader from 2015 to 2023.
Adam Frederick Zemke is a former member of the Michigan House of Representatives. He represented Michigan's 55th district in Washtenaw County from 2013 to 2018.
Gretchen Demarest Driskell is an American politician,accountant,and real estate agent from the state of Michigan. A member of the Democratic Party,she served in the Michigan House of Representatives,representing the 52nd district. Before her time in the Michigan legislature,she was the first female mayor of Saline,Michigan,a position she held for 14 years.
Michelle Regalado Deatrick is an American politician,activist,and poet. Deatrick serves as the elected National Chair of the Democratic National Committee's Council on the Environment and Climate Crisis,which she founded in August,2019. Deatrick also served as a surrogate and 2020 Michigan co-chair for the Bernie Sanders campaign. She served in the Peace Corps in East Africa,and as Vice Chair of the Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners. Elected to the Democratic National Committee in 2016,she was also elected Midwest Representative to the DNC Women's Caucus in 2018. Deatrick was the Special Projects Director in Michigan for the 2016 Bernie Sanders presidential campaign,and stumped for Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. She was a policy analyst at Stanford University. She is a graduate of Wesleyan University (Connecticut) and holds Master's degrees from Harvard University and the University of Michigan,Ann Arbor. Deatrick is also a member of UAW Local 2320 and serves as a delegate to her regional labor federation. She serves on the board of directors of the Southeast Michigan Land Conservancy. In addition to her political career,she has won several national poetry fellowships and awards.
Christopher Taylor is an American attorney and politician who has served as the mayor of Ann Arbor,Michigan since 2014.
Karen Williams Weaver is an American psychologist and politician who was the mayor of Flint,Michigan,from 2015 to 2019. She was the first female mayor of the city and the 5th African-American to hold the office.
Sheldon A. Neeley is an American politician,currently serving as the Mayor of Flint,Michigan. He was elected as Flint’s mayor in 2019 and served an abbreviated three-year term before being re-elected in 2022. Neeley is a registered Democrat and a former state representative in Michigan's 34th House district. He served two complete terms and one partial term in the Michigan House of Representatives between 2015 and 2019. He resigned from his position in the House when he was elected as the Mayor of Flint in 2019. Neeley's wife,Cynthia,was elected to his former seat on March 10,2020. Neeley served two complete terms and one partial term on the Flint City Council between 2005 and 2014,prior to his tenure as Michigan Representative and was the Council's first African-American member to have come from Flint's Sixth Ward.
Felicia Brabec is an American politician serving as a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from the 55th district. Elected in 2020,she assumed office on January 1,2021.
