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Marcia L. Fudge (born October 29, 1952) is the U.S. Representative for Ohio's 11th congressional district, serving since 2008. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district includes most of downtown and eastern Cleveland and many of the eastern suburbs in Cuyahoga County, including Beachwood, Euclid, Cleveland Heights, and Shaker Heights.
Early life, education and career
Fudge, a 1971 graduate of Shaker Heights High School, earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business from Ohio State University in 1975. In 1983, she earned a law degree from Cleveland Marshall College of Law, part of Cleveland State University.
Immediately after college, she worked as a law clerk and studied legal research. She also worked in the Cuyahoga County prosecutor's office. While serving in ...
Congresswoman Marcia Fudge, of Cuyahoga County’s 11th district, drew a couple of hundred people to Phil the Fire restaurant in Beachwood for a hardly unexpected announcement: that she is filing to run again for the congressional seat she has held since the death of Stephanie Tubbs Jones in 2008. Unspoken but implied was that she was rolling out this show of strength in response to state senator Nina Turner’s filing to run against her in the Democratic primary.
The crowd included an army of local elected officials, labor union representatives, and clergy, as well as some of the ...
fabo - in poll Marcia Fudge U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge presented herself simultaneously Monday as a candidate for the past and a candidate for the future -- a candidate who, as her freshly pressed lawn signs put it, has "a promise to keep."The promise, Fudge said in an interview before formally launching her re-election bid, is to serve her constituents and to preserve the legacy of her predecessors in Congress: Louis Stokes and the late Stephanie Tubbs Jones.Stokes was on hand with more than two dozen other political heavyweights and pastors to close rank around Fudge during a lively kick-off at a Beachwood restaurant. She ...
dawn - in poll Marcia Fudge You need a photo ID to cash a check at the bank and a driver’s license or passport to get past airport security checkpoints. Annoying though this is, it reassures advocates of state voter-fraud laws that they aren’t being unreasonable to want every voter to show a government-issued photo ID before they can be handed a ballot.It’s not for PolitiFact Ohio to say whether such a requirement, upheld in 2008 by the U.S. Supreme Court in an Indiana case, is necessary or wise. Ohio state legislators have discussed adopting a photo-ID voting law but have not followed through so ...
