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Wesleyan University; Ohio State University.
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Kathleen Clyde
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Clyde is originally from Garrettsville, Ohio. She was the valedictorian of her class at James A. Garfield High School. After graduation from the Michael East. Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University, where she served as an editor of the law review, Clyde served as Speaker of the House Armond Budish"s deputy legal counsel
She also has worked in the Secretary of State" General’ s Office and the Ohio Senate.
Clyde is a former president of the Public Interest Law Foundation. When incumbent Democrat Kathleen Chandler faced term limits in 2010, Clyde was one of three Democratic challengers who sought to replace Chandler, along with Sean Buchanan and Rick Hawksley.
She defeated all three with 48% of the vote to take the seat. Clyde was sworn into her first term on January 3, 2011, and is serving on the committees of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Finance and Appropriations and its Higher Education Subcommittee.
And State Government and Elections with its Subcommittee on Redistricting. She will be representing the 75th District, which replaces the 68th District. Clyde has been critical of a plan by Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted to allow voters to register on-line, but not give them as much time to cast absentee ballots.
"Voting is already a confusing process, and I think this muddies it even further," said Republican
Clyde, who was director of the Early Voting Center in Franklin County in 2008. "lieutenant discourages voting.".
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