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Novi is a city in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. A northwestern suburb of Detroit,Novi is located roughly 25 miles (40.2 km) northwest of downtown Detroit. As of the 2020 census,the city had a population of 66,243,an increase of 20% from the 2010 census.
Novi Township is a civil township of Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. At the 2010 census,the township had a population of 150. Of the original 36-square-mile (93 km2) survey township,only a small portion of 0.11 square miles (0.28 km2) remains unincorporated from the surrounding city of Novi. Novi Township is the smallest township in the state by total land area and the third-smallest municipality after the villages of Ahmeek and Copper City.
Northville is a city in Wayne and Oakland counties in the U.S. state of Michigan. A western suburb of Detroit,Northville is located roughly 27 miles (43.5 km) northwest of downtown Detroit,and 17 miles (27.4 km) northeast of Ann Arbor. As of the 2020 census,the city had a population of 6,119. It is entirely surrounded by Northville Township to the south,and Novi to the north.
Michigan's 18th congressional district is an obsolete United States congressional district in Michigan. The first Representative to Congress elected from the 18th district,George Anthony Dondero,took office in 1953,after reapportionment due to the 1950 census. In 1933,Dondero had previously been the first representative elected from 17th district.
Aldo Vagnozzi was a Democratic politician from the state of Michigan. Vagnozzi was a member of the Michigan State House of Representatives. He represented the 37th District,which is located in Oakland County and includes the cities of Farmington Hills and Farmington,from 2002 until 2006.
Gilda Z. Jacobs was a Democratic member of the Michigan Senate,representing the 14th district from 2003 through 2010. The mostly suburban district is in southeastern Oakland County,and includes the cities of Farmington Hills,Huntington Woods,Southfield,and Oak Park. Jacobs was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 1999 to 2002.
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.
Kathleen A. "Kathy" Brynaert is a Minnesota politician and former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL),she represented District 19B,which includes Blue Earth County in south-central Minnesota. She is also a youth development leader and a former educator.
Vicki Barnett is an American politician who served as a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 2009 to 2014,representing the 37th District. A member of the Democratic Party,Barnett served as the mayor of Farmington Hills,Michigan from 2003 to 2007 and from 2019 to 2023. Barnett was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for Oakland County Executive in 2016.
Ellen Cogen Lipton is an American politician and patent attorney from Huntington Woods,Michigan. She currently serves on the Michigan State Board of Education.
The 2014 Michigan House of Representatives elections were held on November 4,2014,with partisan primaries to select the parties' nominees in the various districts on August 5,2014. Members elected at the 2014 election served in the 98th Michigan Legislature which convened on January 7,2015.
Hugh D. Crawford is a Republican politician from Michigan who served on the Oakland County,Michigan Board of Commissioners as the Commissioner for District 9 which includes the cities of Novi,Northville,and the Township of Novi. Crawford is a former member of the Michigan House of Representatives where he served for three terms. He was the chairman of the powerful Committee on Regulatory Reform where he was a key player in enacting the reform policies pushed by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder.
Jeremy Allen Moss is an American politician from Southfield,Michigan currently representing the 7th State Senate District,which includes all of Auburn Hills,Bloomfield Hills,Bloomfield Township,Lake Angelus,Lathrup Village,Pontiac,Southfield,and parts of Detroit,Southfield Township,and Waterford Township. A member of the Democratic Party,he is the first openly LGBT person elected to the Michigan Senate,as well as the first to serve as President Pro Tempore. Moss previously served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2014 - 2018,and remains the youngest-ever member of the Southfield City Council.
Christine E. Greig is a former Democratic politician from Michigan,who represented the 37th District which comprises Farmington and Farmington Hills in the Michigan House of Representatives. In her second term,Greig also served as the Minority Floor Leader,and served as Democratic Leader in her third term. Prior to her election to the Michigan Legislature,Greig served as the executive director of the Farmington/Farmington Hills Education Foundation.
Haley Maria Stevens is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative from Michigan's 11th congressional district since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party,Stevens was elected to represent the 11th district in the 2022 election,defeating 9th district incumbent Andy Levin in the primary and Republican nominee Mark Ambrose in the general election. Her district includes many of Detroit's northern and western suburbs,including Rochester Hills,Auburn Hills,Troy,Royal Oak,Bloomfield Hills,Birmingham,West Bloomfield,Farmington,Farmington Hills,and Pontiac.
Padma Kuppa was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from the 41st House District,which encompasses the cities of Troy and Clawson,from 2019 to 2022. She was the first Asian immigrant and Hindu to serve in the Michigan Legislature.
Kathy Ellen Manning is an American lawyer and politician from North Carolina,presently representing the state's North 6th congressional district. A member of the Democratic Party,her district is in the heart of the Piedmont Triad and includes Greensboro and most of Winston-Salem. She was the nominee for North Carolina's 13th congressional district in the 2018 election,and ran for and won the neighboring 6th in the 2020 election after court-ordered redistricting.
Kelly A. Hough-Breen is an American Democratic politician from Michigan. She was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives from the 38th district in 2020. After the 2020 redistricting cycle,she was redistricted to the 21st district where she was elected in 2022.
Samantha Rae Steckloff is an American politician serving as a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from the 37th district. Elected in 2020,she assumed office on January 1,2021. Prior to that,Steckloff served 8 years on the Farmington Hills City Council.