Susan Brooks

Susan Wiant Brooks ( born August 25, 1960 in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is an American politician. Since 2013, it represents the state of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Susan Brooks attended Homestead High School in her hometown of Fort Wayne and then studied until 1982 at Miami University in Oxford ( Ohio). After a subsequent law studies at the School of Law at Indiana University in Indianapolis and her 1985 was admitted as a lawyer, she began to work in this profession. At the same time they hit as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1998 and 1999 she was Deputy Mayor of Indianapolis under Mayor Stephen Goldsmith. They mainly dealt with the issues of crime, law and social welfare. Between 1999 and 2001, Brooks worked for the Indianapolis -based law firm Ice Miller; 2001 to 2007 she was federal prosecutor for the Southern District of Indiana. Between 2007 and 2011 she worked for the Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis.

In the congressional elections of 2012, Brooks was in the fifth electoral district of Indiana with 58 percent of the vote to Democrat Scott Reske in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where they became the successor of Dan Burton on January 3, 2013.

Susan Brooks is married and has two children.