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
- 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