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Please join us on December 6 from 5PM to 6PM for a video call discussion with President and CEO of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society. Jane Campbell was the 56th and first female mayor of Cleveland (2002 2006). She is a graduate of Shaker Heights High School. She founded Women’s Space, a coalition of women’s organizations that helped battered women as well as promote women for community and government leadership. She served six terms in the Ohio House of Representatives, then was elected Cuyahoga County Commissioner. Governing Magazine honored Campbell as 2000 Public Official of the Year.

As mayor of Cleveland she emphasized orientation to Lake Erie as a valuable asset, developed Steelyard Commons, the Gordon Square Arts District, and the Euclid Avenue rapid transit corridor. After a fellowship at the Harvard Institute of Politics, in 2009 she became the Chief of Staff to Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and as such helped Louisiana recover from Hurricane Katrina and oil spills. In 2013-14 she led the Senate Small Business Committee. She led the Washington office of the National Development Council. Campbell sits on the Board of the Faith and Politics Institute and the Association for Enterprise Opportunities. She is on the Steering Committee for the National Democratic Institute’s effort to support women mayors around the globe and is the immediate past president of the Women Impacting Public Policy.

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