Donna Edwards

Donna F. Edwards ( born June 28, 1958 in Yanceyville, Caswell County, North Carolina) is an American politician. Since 2008, she represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Donna Edwards attended Wake Forest University in North Carolina. After studying law at the Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord (New Hampshire ) and its approval as a lawyer, she began to work in this profession. In the 1980s she worked for the later Congressman Albert Wynn, who sat in the House of Representatives from Maryland at the time. Later, she was co-founder and director of a group against domestic violence. She also served as director of the Center for a New Democracy and the Arca Foundation. Politically, Edwards joined the Democratic Party. In 2008, she sat down in the Primary to the upcoming congressional elections against Albert Wynn through, which then prematurely resigned his mandate.

After Wynn's resignation Donna Edwards was at the due election for the fourth seat of Maryland as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where they took up their new mandate on 17 June 2008. Since it has since been confirmed in each case, they can exercise their mandate until today. Edwards is a member of the Ethics Committee, the Committee on Science, Space and Technology and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in five sub-committees. On 27 April 2009 she made ​​headlines when they demonstrated against the policies of the Sudan in the Darfur region of Sudan before the embassy in Washington and was arrested.

In the congressional elections of 2012, Edwards sat with 77:21 percent of the vote against Republican by Faith Loudon.