Madeleine Dean CunnaneIncumbent

Madeleine Dean earned an undergraduate degree from La Salle University and a law degree from the Delaware Law School of Widener University. She practiced law and later taught writing and ethics in La Salle University's English Department from 2001 to 2011. Dean served as an Abington Township commissioner starting in 2011 and won a special election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 2012, serving about six and a half years in Harrisburg. In the legislature, she founded and co-chaired the PA-SAFE Caucus, a coalition focused on ending gun violence, and in 2015 Governor Tom Wolf appointed her to the Pennsylvania Commission for Women. Elected to the U.S. House in 2018, she now serves her fourth term on the House Appropriations and House Foreign Affairs Committees.

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