Rashida TlaibIncumbent

Candidate for U.S. Representative, Michigan Congressional District 12

Tlaib represents Michigan's 12th Congressional District, which includes Detroit, Dearborn, and Southfield. She serves on the House Financial Services Committee and the House Oversight Committee, and chairs the Congressional Get the Lead Out Caucus and the Mamas' Caucus. Elected to the Michigan Legislature in 2008, she was the first Muslim woman to serve in the state Legislature. She worked as a public-interest attorney at the Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice, where she fought emergency managers and abusive state agencies. She is the eldest of 14 children of Palestinian immigrant parents and was raised in Detroit.

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