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SENATE

Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI)

U.S. Representative

Elissa Slotkin

Democrat - Michigan

Prior to being elected in 2018, Slotkin spent her career in national security, including as a CIA analyst working in the Mideast. She has a strong, personal understanding for the importance of a strong and secure Israel.

BIOGRAPHY  

PARTY: Democrat

ELECTED: 2018

EDUCATION: Cornell University, BA; Columbia University, MA

OCCUPATION: Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense

FAMILY: Married, 2 children

BORN: 07/10/1976

*Candidates running for office for the first time will have no voting record.

“People in Michigan feel like Washington is broken and they don’t have representatives who remember that they are public servants first. I know something about being a public servant.”

- Elissa Slotkin

POLITICAL CAREER


  • Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense (2015-2017)

  • Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (2012-2015)

  • Senior Advisor on Middle East Transition (2011-2012)

  • US Department of State Senior Advisor on Iraq (2009-2011)

  • National Security Council Director for Iraq (2007-2009)

  • CIA Team Leader, Iran in Iraq Cell (2006-2007)

  • Senior Assistant to the Director of National Intelligence (2005-2006)

  • CIA Intelligence Briefer to the US Ambassador (2004-2005)

  • CIA Political Analyst (2003-2004)


COMMITTEES SERVED ON


  • Committee on Armed Services

  • Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs

  • Committee on Veterans’ Affairs

INTERESTING FACTS

  • Awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service

  • Worked as a writer for a feminist center in Haifa, gaining an endorsement by Emily’s List

  • Her family founded Hygrade Foods, which created the Ballpark Frank

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