Jehan Gordon-Booth
Jehan Gordon-Booth | |
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Speaker pro tempore of the Illinois House of Representatives | |
Assumed office January 21, 2021 | |
Preceded by | Position established |
Member of the Illinois House of Representatives from the 92nd district | |
Assumed office January 13, 2009 | |
Preceded by | Joan Krupa |
Personal details | |
Born | 1981 (age 41–42) Peoria, Illinois, U.S. |
Political party | Democratic |
Education | Parkland College University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (BA) |
Jehan A. Gordon-Booth (born 1981) is a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives, representing the 92nd district since 2009.
Gordon-Booth was born and raised in Peoria County, Illinois, where she attended Limestone High School in Bartonville, and attended Parkland College and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Gordon-Booth was on the Pleasant Hill School District 69 Board of Education before her election to the Illinois House.
Gordon-Booth was elected in November 2008 to the seat being vacated by Aaron Schock. She defeated Joan Krupa, but Krupa was appointed to the seat to fill the remaining nine days of Schock's term when Schock became U.S. Representative for Illinois's 18th congressional district.
In 2018, J. B. Pritzker appointed Gordon-Booth to the gubernatorial transition's Restorative Justice and Safe Communities Committee.
As of July 3rd, 2022, Representative Gordon-Booth was a member of the following committees:
- Appropriations - Human Services Committee (HAPH)
- Appropriations - Public Safety Committee (HAPP)
- Executive Committee (HEXC)
- Redistricting Committee (HRED)
- Restorative Justice Committee (SHRJ)
- Rules Committee (HRUL)
- Special Issues (AP) Subcommittee (HAPH-ISSU)
- 1981 births
- 21st-century American politicians
- 21st-century American women politicians
- African-American state legislators in Illinois
- African-American women in politics
- Democratic Party members of the Illinois House of Representatives
- Living people
- Politicians from Peoria, Illinois
- Women state legislators in Illinois