Judy Biggert

Judith Borg Biggert ( born August 15, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American politician. From 1999 to 2013, she represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Judith Gail Borg, so her maiden name, the New Trier High School in Winnetka visited. She then studied until 1959 at Stanford University in California. This was followed up in 1963 to study law at Northwestern University in Evanston. In the years 1963 and 1964 she worked for the federal judge Luther Merritt Swygert. At the same time she began a political career as a member of the Republican Party. Between 1983 and 1986 she directed the Board of Education High School in Hinsdale, where she was a member since 1978. Between 1993 and 1998 she was a Member of the House of Representatives from Illinois.

In the congressional elections of 1998, Biggert was in the 13th electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where they became the successor of Harris W. Fawell on 3 January 1999. After six re- elections, they could exercise their mandate in Congress until January 3, 2013. In the congressional elections in 2012 it was subject to Democrat Bill Foster with 42:58 percent of the vote. In her time as a Congressman, the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell. Judy Biggert was a member of the Committee on Education and Labor, the Finance Committee and the Committee on Science, Space and Technology, and in a total of six subcommittees. She was co-chair of the Caucus on Women's Issues within the party and belonged to the moderate Republican Main Street Partnership.

Judy Biggert is married and has four children. The family lives privately in Hinsdale.