Alumni Run for State, National Office
Jim Maxwell’75 is running for Congress in New York’s 25th Congressional district. He is a native of Monroe County and a lifelong resident of East Rochester, where he has practiced neurosurgery since 1982.
Shannon Hader’95 is running for Congress in Washington state’s 8th Congressional district. She is a fifth-generation native of the region, where she grew up on her great-grandfather’s farmland. Most recently, Shannon was director of the Division of Global HIV & TB at the CDC in Atlanta.
Abdul El-Sayed’14 is running for governor of Michigan. He is a first-generation American, son of Egyptian immigrants who settled in Michigan. If elected, he would be the first Muslim-American ever elected a state governor and the youngest governor since 32-year-old Bill Clinton was elected governor of Arkansas in 1978. Most recently, Abdul was executive director of the Detroit Health Department.
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