Mary Gay ScanlonIncumbent

Candidate for U.S. Representative, Pennsylvania District 5

Mary Gay Scanlon has represented Pennsylvania's 5th Congressional District since being sworn in following a special election in November 2018. Before Congress, she worked for 15 years as national pro bono counsel at a law firm, supervising more than 600 lawyers across 15 offices who provided upwards of 50,000 hours of pro bono legal services each year to low-income clients and nonprofit organizations. She also worked as a senior staff attorney at the Education Law Center of Pennsylvania, where she led class action lawsuits on behalf of students with disabilities. Scanlon is a graduate of Colgate University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and she served as a judicial clerk for the Superior Court of Pennsylvania. In Congress, she serves on the House Judiciary Committee and the House Committee on Rules.

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