Hillary Scholten

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Hillary Scholten
File:Rep. Hillary Scholten - 118th Congress (1).jpg
Scholten in 2023
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Michigan's 3rd district
Assumed office
January 3, 2023
Preceded by Peter Meijer
Personal details
Born Hillary Jeanne Scholten
(1982-02-22) February 22, 1982 (age 42)
Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Jesse Holcomb
Children 2
Education
Website House website

Hillary Jeanne Scholten (/ˈskoʊltən/ SKOHL-tən; born February 22, 1982)[1][2] is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. representative from Michigan's 3rd congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she represents Grand Rapids and much of the urban core of West Michigan, in a district once represented by late President Gerald Ford.

Early life and career

Scholten grew up in Hudsonville, Michigan. She attended Unity Christian High School and graduated from Gordon College and the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.[3]

Scholten was a judicial law clerk and attorney adviser for the Board of Immigration Appeals from 2013 to 2017. When the Obama administration ended, she moved back to Grand Rapids and became a staff attorney for the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center.[4]

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

2020

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See also: 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan § District 3

In July 2019, Scholten announced her candidacy for the United States House of Representatives in Michigan's 3rd congressional district in the 2020 elections.[3] She was unopposed in the Democratic Party primary.[5] She lost the general election to Republican nominee Peter Meijer,[6] but came the closest a Democrat had come to winning the district since 1982, when incumbent Republican Harold S. Sawyer was held to 51% in what was then the 5th district.[7] It was also only the second time since 1982 that a Democrat had received 40% of the vote; the Democratic nominee received 43% two years earlier.[8]

2022

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See also: 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan § District 3

Scholten ran again in the 2022 elections.[9] She was again unopposed in the Democratic primary. She was initially priming for a rematch against Peter Meijer, but Meijer lost the Republican primary to a considerably more conservative challenger, former Trump administration official John Gibbs.[10]

Scholten was running in a district that had been made much friendlier to Democrats in redistricting; it had been pushed to the west to grab a large portion of the Lake Michigan shoreline, including Muskegon.[11] Had it existed in 2020, Joe Biden would have won it with 53% of the vote;[12] Donald Trump carried the old 3rd with 51%.[13] Scholten (54.9%) defeated Gibbs (42%) to win election to the 118th United States Congress.[14]

2024

Scholten ran again in the 2024 election, where she is facing off against one other candidate in the Democratic primary.

She joined in the calls for Joe Biden to step aside as the Democratic presidential nominee, becoming the first in Michigan's congressional delegation to do so.[15] In the following days, she faced retaliation from Biden campaign allies for pulling her support of Joe Biden.[16]

Caucus memberships

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Committee assignments

Political positions

File:Kamala Harris 2024 - 33.jpg
Scholten, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Governor Gretchen Whitmer at a roundtable discussion in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on the topic of reproductive rights for women, February 2024

Scholten supports abortion rights.[20] In a speech opposing the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, she cited Jeremiah 1:5, which states, "I knew you before I formed you and placed you in your mother's womb", a verse commonly cited by Christians "to make theological or scriptural arguments in favor of legal protections for preborn children".[21][22]

Personal life

Scholten's husband, Jesse Holcomb, is a journalism professor at Calvin University. They have two sons.[3] Scholten is a member of LaGrave Christian Reformed Church.[23]

References

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External links

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Michigan's 3rd congressional district
2023–present		 Incumbent
United States order of precedence (ceremonial)
Preceded by United States representatives by seniority
415th		 Succeeded by
Keith Self

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