- Marie Donigan
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Marie Donigan (born 1954) is the Democratic State Representative in the Michigan State House of Representatives, representing the 26th District which covers Royal Oak and Madison Heights in Oakland County.
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Biography
Donigan was born in Royal Oak and attended Dondero High School. She earned a B.S. from Western Michigan University and a M.S. in Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. She worked in private practice as a landscape architect for a number of years, before joining the Farmington Hills Department of Planning.[1]
She is married to Kevin McLogan, who is Secretary of the Royal Oak School Board.[2]
Political career
Donigan was elected to the Royal Oak City Commission in 1997, and served until 2004, when she resigned in order to serve as State Representative.
She defeated Republican City Commissioner Carlo P. Ginotti.
She was re-elected in 2006, defeating Republican Kevin Konczal.
The chief focus of her legislative work in the Michigan House has been in the areas of education, health care, public transit and the economy. She was the author of a bill to build a Public Transportation system for the Metro Detroit Area along the Woodward Avenue Corridor.[3] She has also supported legislation raising standards for state public education and tougher Great Lakes protections.[4]
Election results
Michigan House 26th District Election Results, 2004–present 2004 Candidate Party Popular votes Vote percentage Marie Donigan Democrat 22,780 52.08% Carlo Ginotti Republican 20,954 47.91% 2006 Candidate Party Popular votes Vote percentage Marie Donigan Democrat 22,077 62% Kevin Konczal Republican 12,357 35% James Young Libertarian 1,057 3% References
- ^ "City Commissioner Website". Archived from the original on 2007-07-03. http://web.archive.org/web/20070703001550/http://www.ci.royal-oak.mi.us/clerk/ccdonigan.html. Retrieved 2007-08-17.
- ^ "School District of the City of Royal Oak 2009 Board of Education". http://www.royaloakschools.com/portal/boardmembers.
- ^ "Detroit Metro Times". Across the Great Divide. http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=9379.
- ^ "Detroit News". http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070810/POLITICS/708100361/1022.
External links
Categories:- 1954 births
- Members of the Michigan House of Representatives
- Living people
- Michigan Democrats
- People from Royal Oak, Michigan
- Women state legislators in Michigan
- Western Michigan University alumni
- University of Pennsylvania alumni
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