Susan Wild

Democrat Representative of Pennsylvania's 7th district

Representative
Pennsylvania, district 15
November 27, 2018 - January 3, 2019
Representative
Pennsylvania, district 7
January 3, 2019 - January 3, 2021
Representative
Pennsylvania, district 7
January 3, 2021 - January 3, 2023
Representative
Pennsylvania, district 7
January 3, 2023 - January 3, 2025

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@RepSusanWild

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June 7, 1957 (67 years old)

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American attorney and politician
Served as the member for Pennsylvania’s 15th congressional district for the last two months of 2018
Chair of the House Ethics Committee from September 2022 to January 2023, then became ranking member
Co-chairs the New Democrat Coalition Climate Change Task Force
Vice chair of the Congressional Labor and Working Families Caucus and the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations
First woman to represent the Lehigh Valley in Congress
Volunteered on Jimmy Carter’s 1976 presidential campaign
Graduated from American University and earned a Juris Doctor at George Washington University Law School
Became a partner at the law firm Gross McGinley in 1999
Ran for Lehigh County Commissioner in 2013 but lost
Appointed the first female solicitor of Allentown, Pennsylvania, in January 2015
Won a six-candidate Democratic Party primary election in 2018 with 33% of the vote
Defeated Republican Lehigh County Commissioner Marty Nothstein in the November 6, 2018, general election
Won reelection in 2020 and again in 2022 after being redistricted into a more competitive congressional seat
Cosponsored a resolution to expel Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene from Congress in 2021
Voted in line with President Joe Biden’s stated position 100% of the time as of November 2022
Co-sponsored a bill to reauthorize the Older Americans Act in 2020
Voted for H.R. 1808: Assault Weapons Ban of 2022
Critical of Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, characterizing his views as “far-right”, “misogynistic”, “homophobic”, and “anti-immigrant”
Voted against H.Con.Res. 21, which directed President Biden to remove U.S. troops from Syria within 180 days in 2023
Signed a letter advocating for President Biden to give F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine in February 2023
Voted against lifting COVID-19 vaccine mandates for healthcare workers and against ending the COVID-19 national emergency in early 2023
Voted against allowing victims of crimes by illegal immigrants in sanctuary cities to report the incident to the Department of Homeland Security in 2019
Voted for both articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on December 18, 2019
Married Russell Wild in 1981 and divorced in 2003; they have two adult children
Reunited with Kerry Acker, her life partner until his death by suicide on May 25, 2019
Lives in South Whitehall Township, west of Allentown
Jewish