Janine Boyd | |
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![]() Boyd in 2022 | |
Member of the Cleveland Heights City Council | |
In office February 10, 2023 –March 18, 2024 | |
Preceded by | Mary Dunbar |
Succeeded by | Jim Posch |
Regional Director of the United States Department of Health and Human Services for Region 5 | |
In office April 8,2022 –2022 | |
Appointed by | Joe Biden |
Preceded by | Doug O'Brien |
Succeeded by | Michael Cabonargi |
Member of the OhioHouseofRepresentatives from the 9th district | |
In office January 6,2015 –April 22,2022 | |
Preceded by | Barbara Boyd |
Succeeded by | Bishara Addison |
Personal details | |
Born | February 5,1971 |
Political party | Democratic |
Relations | Barbara Boyd (mother) |
Residence(s) | Cleveland Heights,Ohio,U.S. |
Education | Hillsdale College (BA) Michigan State University (MA) |
Janine Boyd (born February 5,1971) is an American politician who served as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives for the 9th district from 2015 to 2022. She resigned from her House seat in April 2022 to take a position in the United States Department of Health and Human Services. She later served on the city council of Cleveland Heights.
A native of Cleveland Heights,Ohio,Boyd graduated from the Beaumont School. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish from Hillsdale College in 1993 and a Master of Arts in speech and language pathology from Michigan State University in 1999. [1] Boyd is the daughter of Barbara Boyd,who held the same seat from 1993 to 2000 and from 2007 to 2014.
Boyd previously served on council for Cleveland Heights, [2] where she often faced criticism for her attendance. [3] In 2012,she was appointed to council to replace Phyllis Evans. [4] In 2014,she announced that she would seek to replace her mother,Barbara Boyd,in the Ohio House of Representatives. [5] She faced Republican Charles Hopson in the general election, [6] and went on to win 85%-15%. [7]
During debate on an Ohio six-week abortion ban,banning abortion after detection of a "fetal heartbeat",Boyd drafted an amendment that would give an exemption to African American women,"whose history includes rape and forced birth imposed on enslaved women and black women after slavery". [8] The amendment failed,and the bill was signed into law. [9] A federal judge issued an injunction against the bill before it took effect. [10]
In April 2022,Boyd was appointed by President Joe Biden to serve as a regional director of the United States Department of Health and Human Services for the fifth region,which covers Illinois,Indiana,Michigan,Minnesota,Ohio,and Wisconsin. [11]
In late 2022,Boyd left the HHS to care for her ailing mother in Cleveland Heights. [12] Her mother died in November 2022. [13] In February 2023,City of Cleveland Heights Mayor Kahlil Seren appointed Boyd "to fill the vacant,unexpired term on Cleveland Heights City Council ending 12/31/2023." [14] [15] She was elected in November 2023 to serve a full four-year term, [16] but resigned on March 18,2024 in order to relocate her family. [17] In April 2024,Jim Posch was appointed to fill the seat she had held. [18]