Betty Sue Sutton (born July 31, 1963) is a politician from Ohio. She is currently the Congresswoman for the 13th Congressional District of Ohio in the United States House of Representatives, serving since 2007. The district includes most of the western and southern suburbs of Cleveland, including North Royalton, Akron, Lorain, Elyria and Cuyahoga Falls.
Sutton was born and raised the youngest of six children in Barberton, just outside Akron. She ...
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Betty Sue Sutton (born July 31, 1963) is a politician from Ohio. She is currently the Congresswoman for the 13th Congressional District of Ohio in the United States House of Representatives, serving since 2007. The district includes most of the western and southern suburbs of Cleveland, including North Royalton, Akron, Lorain, Elyria and Cuyahoga Falls.
Sutton was born and raised the youngest of six children in Barberton, just outside Akron. She attended public schools, going on to graduate from Kent State University with a degree in political science. Sutton went on to study for a Juris Doctor at the University of Akron School of Law, where she received a Dean's Club Scholarship and earned both the American Jurisprudence Award and Federal Bar Association Award for Outstanding Performance in Constitutional Law.
During her first year of law school, Sutton successfully ran for her first public office, earning an at-large seat on the Barberton City Council in 1990.
A year later, Sutton...
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