Jennifer Granholm

Jennifer Mulhern Granholm ( born February 5, 1959 in Vancouver, Canada) is an American politician (Democratic Party) and former Governor of the State of Michigan. Granholm was followed on 1 January 2003 John Engler after and thus became the first female governor of Michigan. This office she held until January 1, 2011.

Early years and political rise

Granholm was born in Vancouver in 1959 and retired as a four- year-old with her ​​parents to California. There she made ​​as a young adult attempts to establish himself as an actress feet, but failed and gave up their efforts with 21 years on. In the same year 1980, she was naturalized, worked for the presidential campaign, John Anderson and enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley, a. She then studied at Harvard University law. After graduating, she took a job at the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Federal Judge Damon Keith under. In 1990 she was federal prosecutor in Detroit. In 1994 she was an advisor to the government in Wayne County. There followed in 1998 the appointment as minister of Justice ( Attorney General ) of Michigan. She was the first woman who has exercised this office in Michigan.

Governor of Michigan

In 2002, Granholm was elected as a candidate of the Democratic Party and the first female governor of their state. Granholm stepped up her new post in early January 2003. In her re-election in 2006, she received about 56 percent of the vote. Due to a constitutional amendment they could not run for a third term in 2010. Her successor Republican Rick Snyder was elected.

In her reign she has the budget deficit is reduced by $ 4 billion. It lays emphasis on the promotion of family policy. Other objectives of its election campaign were the creation of thousands of new jobs, the expansion of the country's infrastructure, and the training of unskilled workers to skilled workers. So far it has succeeded, some firms to move to investment in Michigan. On two occasions she visited Japan in order to achieve an increase in Japanese investment in Michigan. In order to achieve economic diversification in the traditionally dependent on jobs in the automotive industry, Michigan, here in particular in the metropolitan Detroit area, it promotes the creation of new jobs in cutting-edge sectors such as life sciences and alternative energy solutions. To this end it is committed to increasing use of renewable energy sources. In October 2008, a law came into force, which states that by 2015 the share of renewable energy should be increased to 10 percent, a measure of the same time an increase in jobs is expected.

It was sometimes brought for a future presidential bid this week, but what it fails, that she could not be president as naturalized Canadian. According to his own statements, it is because not interested. At times, it was also considered a candidate for the retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter and John Paul Stevens; ultimately to U.S. President Barack Obama decided, however for Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.

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