Kathy Manning

Vorlage:Short description Vorlage:Infobox officeholder Kathy Ellen Manning (born December 3, 1956) is an American attorney and politician from the state of North Carolina. She is the representative for North Carolina's 6th congressional district after winning the 2020 election and was the nominee for North Carolina's 13th congressional district in the 2018 election.

Early life and education

Manning was born to a Jewish family in Detroit, Michigan, in December 1956. Her father worked for the Ford Motor Company for forty years, and her mother was a public school teacher. Manning attended Harvard University, where she sang a cappella with the Radcliffe Pitches. She also attended the University of Michigan Law School, earning a juris doctor.

Career

After graduating from college, Manning moved to Greensboro, North Carolina, her husband's hometown, in 1987. She served as director of the Jewish Federations of North America.

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

2018

In the 2018 elections, Manning ran against Republican incumbent Ted Budd for the United States House of Representatives in Vorlage:Ushr. At the time, the district stretched from southwestern Greensboro to the northern exurbs of Charlotte. On paper, the district tilted Republican; Donald Trump had carried the district two years earlier with 53 percent of the vote. She lost to Budd, 51%–45%.

2020

After a court-ordered redistricting in 2019, Manning's home in Greensboro was drawn into the neighboring Vorlage:Ushr, represented by three-term Republican Mark Walker. The new 6th included all of Guilford County and swept west to grab the more Democratic areas of neighboring Forsyth County, including almost all of Winston-Salem. The old 6th included eastern Greensboro, as well as much of the eastern Triad and some outer suburbs of the Triangle.

On December 2, 2019; hours before the new map was issued, Manning announced she would run in the 6th. The new district was significantly more compact and Democratic than its predecessor. Had it existed in 2016, Hillary Clinton would have won it with over 59 percent of the vote–a near-mirror image of Trump's 56 percent in the old 6th. On paper, the new 6th was one of the most Democratic white-majority districts in the South.

With most observers believing the 6th was a likely Democratic pickup, Walker announced he would not run for a fourth term.

Manning won the Democratic primary, and in the general election, she defeated Republican nominee Lee Haywood with 62 percent of the vote. When she is sworn in on January 3, 2021; she will be the first Democrat to represent this district since 1985, and the first white Democrat since 1995 to represent a Triad-based district.

Committee assignments

• Committee on Education and Labor

Personal life

Manning and her husband, Randall Kaplan, have three children.

External links

• Representative Kathy Manning, official U.S. House website
• Campaign website
• Vorlage:CongLinks