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Biggert was defeated in her 2012 re-election bid by former US Congressman Bill Foster. She was also the last Republican woman elected to Congress from Illinois until the election of Mary Miller of the 15th congressional district in 2020.
Prior to serving in Congress, she served in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1993 to 1998. After leaving Congress, she was appointed to serve on the Illinois Education Labor Relations Board.
Early life, education and careerEdit
Biggert was born Judith Gail Borg in Chicago on August 15, 1937, the second of four children of Alvin Andrew Borg and Marjorie Virginia (Mailler) Borg. Her father worked for the Chicago-based Walgreen Co., the largest drugstore chain in the United States, for 41 years from 1928 to 1969, and served as its president from 1963 to 1969, succeeding Charles R. Walgreen Jr. and succeeded by Charles R. Walgreen III.<ref>Template:Cite news
Template:Cite news C. R. Walgreen Jr., president of the drug chain since 1939, was elected to the newly created post of chairman. He continues as chief executive officer. A. A. Borg, former vice president and treasurer, was elected president. A 35-year veteran of the company, he becomes principal administrative officer.
Template:Cite news He will succeed A. A. Borg who will retire Sept. 30.
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Template:Cite news died Tuesday in a fire in her Northbrook home. Mrs. Borg was the widow of Alvin A. Borg, president of Walgreen Co. from 1963 to 1969.</ref> Her paternal grandparents immigrated from Finland and her maternal family is of English descent.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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She grew up in Wilmette, Illinois, a North Shore Chicago suburb, and graduated from New Trier High School in 1955, then went to Stanford University, where she received a B.A. in international relations in 1959, then worked for a year in a women's apparel store.<ref>Template:Cite news Photo caption: Miss Judy Borg (left) and Miss Nancy Igoe at North Shore Country Club's pool.
Template:Cite news Photo caption: Judy Borg's dress is an imported cotton twill ($19.95), from the College Cupboard of Marshall Field & Co.</ref><ref name="Junior League">Template:Cite news She became a law clerk to a federal judge, leaving to have her first child. She now practices on her own, handling mostly real estate and estate business for family and friends.</ref> She then attended Northwestern University School of Law where she was an editor of the Northwestern University Law Review from 1961 to 1963, earned a J.D. in 1963, then clerked for federal judge Luther Merritt Swygert of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 1963 to 1964.<ref name="Who's Who 2010">Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Unreliable source?
Biggert left her federal court law clerkship to have her children, but later did some legal work from her home for family and friends on wills, trusts, and real estate.<ref name="Junior League"/><ref name="Jouzaitis 1982">Template:Cite news I worked as a lawyer for a year, and had every intention of continuing, but there was pressure from all sides to have a family. Then I had three children in three years and there was no way I could continue to work. So what I did was to get very involved in organizations even when the children were young. I've been on lots and lots of boards, the Junior League of Chicago and Hinsdale District 86...I do some (legal work on) wills and real estate, but it's been 15 years since I really practiced law...Physically, I couldn't work full time, have a husband and a house to take care of. In the voluntary sector, you can pick the time you want to spend.</ref> She served on numerous boards of voluntary and civic organizations.<ref name="Junior League"/><ref name="Jouzaitis 1982"/>
Early community involvement and political careerEdit
Biggert was elected to the Hinsdale Township High School District 86 Board of Education in 1978 and was a board member until 1985, serving as president from 1983 to 1985.<ref name="Who's Who 2010"/> She served as chairman of the Hinsdale Plan Commission from 1989 to 1993.<ref name="Who's Who 2010"/> She also became active in Chicago community organizations, serving as chair of the Visiting Nurses Association and as president of the Junior League.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead link</ref>
In 1992, Biggert was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives to serve the redrawn 81st District. She was re-elected in 1994 and 1996 before running for Congress in 1998.
U.S. House of RepresentativesEdit
Committee assignmentsEdit
- Committee on Education and the Workforce
- Committee on Financial Services
- Committee on Science, Space and Technology
Caucus membershipsEdit
- Co-Chair of the Caucus on Women's Issues
- Republican Main Street Partnership
Voting recordEdit
Interest group ratingsEdit
| ACLU | ACU | ADA | AFL–CIO | AFSCME | ChC | CfG | Con | FRC | ITIC | LCV | NTLC* | NTU | USCC | |
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| 1999<ref name="CQ politics 2002" /><ref name="National Journal almanac 2002" /> | – | 60 | 30 | 11 | 16 | – | 21 | – | 31 | – | 59 | 96 | ||
| 2000<ref name="CQ politics 2002" /><ref name="National Journal almanac 2002" /> | 50 | 68 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 5 | 94 | 26 | 70 | 56 | 100 | ||
| 2001<ref name="CQ politics 2004" /><ref name="National Journal almanac 2004" /> | – | 56 | 20 | 17 | 10 | – | – | – | 21 | – | 61 | 100 | ||
| 2002<ref name="CQ politics 2004" /><ref name="National Journal almanac 2004" /> | 53 | 84 | 15 | 11 | 0 | 50 | 58 | 100 | 38 | 73 | 59 | 100 | ||
| 2003<ref name="CQ politics 2006" /><ref name="National Journal almanac 2006" /> | – | 60 | 10 | 13 | 13 | – | – | 25 | – | 59 | 100 | |||
| 2004<ref name="CQ politics 2006" /><ref name="National Journal almanac 2006" /> | 30 | 64 | 35 | 13 | 0 | 61 | 100 | 18 | 70 | 60 | 100 | |||
| 2005<ref name="CQ politics 2008" /><ref name="National Journal almanac 2008" /> | – | 60 | 20 | 13 | 0 | 61 | 54 | – | 22 | 53 | 89 | |||
| 2006<ref name="CQ politics 2008" /><ref name="National Journal almanac 2008" /> | 41 | 64 | 30 | 21 | 0 | 54 | 0 | 100 | 33 | 59 | 93 | |||
| 2007<ref name="National Journal almanac 2010" /><ref name="CQ politics 2010" /> | – | 68 | 30 | 42 | 18 | 67 | – | – | 55 | 65 | 85 | |||
| 2008<ref name="National Journal almanac 2010" /><ref name="CQ politics 2010" /> | 27 | 84 | 35 | 20 | 14 | 65 | 35 | 71 | 38 | 63 | 94 | |||
| 2009 | – | 80 | 20 | 13 | 22 | 77 | – | 29 | 73 | 95 |
* NTLC – National Tax-Limitation Committee
Key votesEdit
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Political positionsEdit
Judy Biggert is a moderate Republican.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She was a member of The Republican Main Street Partnership and Republicans for Choice.
AbortionEdit
Biggert supports abortion rights.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She supports embryonic stem-cell research.<ref name="OnTheIssues.org">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She was given a 50% rating from NARAL Pro-Choice America and a 67% rating from Planned Parenthood, which both support legal abortion, a 100% rating from Population Connection, an anti-abortion organization which supports voluntary family planning, and a 50% rating from the anti-abortion National Right to Life Committee which opposes access to legal abortion.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
TaxesEdit
Biggert was one of 171 of the 178 Republican U.S. House members in the 111th Congress to have signed Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform Taxpayer Protection Pledge:<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Biggert supported making all of the Bush tax cuts permanent, regardless of income.<ref name="Lourgos 2010">Template:Cite news</ref>
Social security, healthcare, and MedicaidEdit
Biggert supported the partial privatization of Social Security, in which individuals could choose to voluntarily divert 2% of their Social Security tax payments from paying Social Security beneficiaries into individual private accounts which they could invest in the stock market and which they could pass on to their heirs.<ref>Template:Cite news Biggert's own belief that citizens should be allowed to set up personal accounts and invest their own Social Security taxes in the stock market got plenty of attention Tuesday from congressional leaders.</ref><ref name="Questionanaire 2010">Template:Cite news</ref>
Biggert supported the repeal (or defunding to prevent implementation) of the 2010 Democratic health care reform and its replacement with Republican health care reform.<ref name= "Questionanaire 2010"/>
Biggert opposed allowing individuals less than 65 years of age to buy into Medicare.<ref>Template:Cite news
Template:Cite news She opposes public funding of congressional campaigns, which Hynes favors, and opposes President Clinton's proposal to lower the age of eligibility for Medicare.
Template:Cite news Question: What should Congress do to ensure continued viability of Medicare? Judy Biggert: The first thing we should not do is lower the Medicare eligibility age to 55, as the president has proposed.</ref>
Illegal immigrationEdit
Biggert opposed any comprehensive immigration reform that provides a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants and supports efforts against illegal immigration. .<ref name= "Questionanaire 2010"/>
Campaign financeEdit
Biggert opposed public financing of federal election campaigns, and supported the elimination of all limits on campaign contributions with immediate and full disclosure of contributions.<ref>Template:Cite news Hynes has voiced support for public funding of congressional campaigns, a proposal Biggert opposes. Biggert favors an end to the limits on campaign contributions—now $1,000 for individuals and $5,000 for political action committees—but would require quicker disclosure of all donations.</ref>
Same-sex marriage and LGBT issuesEdit
Biggert voted against the 2006 Federal Marriage Amendment, a proposed constitutional amendment intended to ban gay marriage.<ref name="OnTheIssues.org"/> She supported repealing the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, but opposed repealing the Defense of Marriage Act which prohibited federal recognition of same-sex marriages.<ref name= "Questionanaire 2010"/> In 2012, she was given a 70% rating from the Human Rights Campaign, a political action committee which supports same-sex marriage and other gay rights, and she was given a 100% rating by PFLAG, or Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Political campaignsEdit
1998Edit
{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} In 1998, Biggert narrowly defeated (45%-40%) conservative state Senator Peter Roskam in the Republican primary, the real contest in this ancestrally Republican district. In the general she earned 61% of the vote to win the seat opened up by the retirement of U. S. Representative Harris Fawell. In 2006, Roskam was elected to Congress from another district.
2006Edit
{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} In 2006, Biggert's share of the vote in the general election fell below 60% (58%) for the first time in her Congressional career.
2008Edit
{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} In 2008, Biggert received less than 54% of the vote overall (and less than 50% of the vote in Will County) in winning reelection to her sixth term in Congress. For the first time, she faced a financially competitive Democratic opponent, businessman Scott Harper, the first reasonably well-financed Democrat to run in the district or its predecessors in decades. In 2008, Democratic U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin was reelected with 60% of the vote and Democrat Barack Obama won 54% of the vote in the 13th Congressional District,<ref name="National Journal almanac 2010"/> with even Biggert's Republican predecessor, Fawell, supporting Obama.<ref>Template:Cite news Harris Fawell, former congressman for the 13th Congressional District, is backing a Democrat for president for the first time in his life. The 79-year-old Republican said there's a good chance that Obama will carry the county. "He's the best I have seen, the most qualified I've ever seen running for president," Fawell said.</ref>
2010Edit
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Biggert won re-election.
2012Edit
{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} In the redistricting following the 2010 census, the Democratic-controlled state legislature significantly altered Illinois's congressional map, splitting Biggert's district. Her district was renumbered as the 11th District, and made significantly more Democratic even though it contains 50 percent of Biggert's former territory. A portion of her former district that included Biggert's home in Hinsdale was combined with the heavily Democratic Chicago North Side-based 5th District. Biggert opted to run in the new 11th against the Democratic nominee, former 14th District Congressman Bill Foster.<ref>Toeplitz, Shira. Race Ratings: Illinois Democrats' Map makes GOP Sweat. Roll Call, October 6, 2011.</ref>
Electoral historyEdit
Illinois House, 81st Representative District (1992–1996)Edit
- 1992 Republican primary<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Judy Biggert – 5,284 (38%)
- James P. McCarthy – 3,498 (25%)
- Todd Vandermyde – 1,861 (13%)
- Andrew J. (Andy) Clark – 1,758 (12%)
- John Curry – 1,684 (12%)
- 1992 general election<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- 1994 Republican primary<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Judy Biggert – 6,100 (54%)
- James P. McCarthy – 5,219 (46%)
- 1994 general election<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- 1996 Republican primary<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Judy Biggert – 14,142 (100%)
- 1996 general election<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
U.S. House, Illinois 13th Congressional District (1998– )Edit
- 1998 Republican primary<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Judy Biggert – 24,482 (45%)
- Peter Roskam – 21,784 (40%)
- David J. Shestokas – 2,574 (5%)
- Michael J. Krzyston – 2,566 (5%)
- Andrew J. Clark – 1,926 (4%)
- Walter Marksym – 1,035 (2%)
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- 2000 Republican primary<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Judy Biggert – 39,121 (100%)
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- 2002 Republican primary<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Judy Biggert – 70,691 (100%)
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- 2004 Republican primary<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Judy Biggert – 46,861 (>99%)
- Bob Hart (write-in) – 231 (<1%)
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- 2006 Republican primary<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Judy Biggert – 52,900 (80%)
- Bob Hart – 13,564 (20%)
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- 2008 Republican primary<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Judy Biggert – 58,533 (77%)
- Sean O'Kane – 17,206 (23%)
- 2008 general election<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Judy Biggert (R) – 180,888 (54%) $1,585,536*<ref name="National Journal almanac 2010"/>
- Scott Harper (D) – 147,430 (44%) $1,070,201*<ref name="National Journal almanac 2010"/>
- Steve Alesch (Green) – 9,402 (3%)
- Theodore Knapp (write-in) – 51 (0%)
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- Judy Biggert – 58,294 (100%)
- 2010 general election
- Judy Biggert (R) – $1,450,000**<ref name="Lourgos 2010"/>
- Scott Harper (D) – $621,000**<ref name="Lourgos 2010"/>
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** campaign contributions (through September 30, 2010)
Post-congressional careerEdit
On April 23, 2015, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner appointed Biggert to the Education Labor Relations Board, which oversees the negotiation of teacher contracts.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Personal lifeEdit
On September 21, 1963,<ref>Template:Cite news
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Since 2004, Biggert's youngest daughter Adrienne Morrell has been a registered lobbyist for Health Net, the sixth largest publicly traded for-profit managed healthcare company; previously Morrell was a lobbyist with America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the chief health insurance industry lobby, after having served as an aide to former seven-term Illinois 13th District U.S. Rep. Harris Fawell, Biggert's predecessor in Congress.<ref name="Sweet 1998"/><ref name="CREW 2007"/>
In 2008, multimillionaire Biggert was the second wealthiest—after U.S. Rep. Bill Foster (D-14)—in Illinois's 21-member Congressional delegation, and the 82nd wealthiest member in the U.S. House.<ref>Template:Cite news
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Biggert was president of the Junior Board of the Chicago Travelers Aid Society in 1969, and president of the Junior League of Chicago from 1976 to 1978, chairman of board of directors of the Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago in 1978, and president of the Oak School elementary school PTA in Hinsdale from 1976 to 1978. She was a member of the board of directors of the Salt Creek Ballet from 1990 to 1998. She was also a Sunday school teacher at Grace Episcopal Church in Hinsdale from 1974 to 1984, and an American Youth Soccer Organization assistant soccer coach in 1983.<ref name="Who's Who 2010"/>
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
External linksEdit
- Judy Biggert for Congress official campaign site
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- Biggert, Foster square off in 11th Dist. debate, ABC 7 Chicago, October 13, 2012, complete video
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