Ann Womer Benjamin
Ann Womer Benjamin is the mayor of Aurora, Ohio. She is former executive director of the Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education. Benjamin served in the cabinet of the former Governor of Ohio Bob Taft as director of the Ohio Department of Insurance. Prior to that appointment, she was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives in 1995–2002.[1] She represented a district which encompassed Portage County, Ohio.[1]
Biography
Benjamin received her bachelor’s from Vanderbilt University in 1975 and graduated from Case Western Reserve University Law School in 1978.[2]
She served four terms in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1995 to 2002. During her term, she sponsored bills on student loans, crime victims' reparations, rape, finance reform, and welfare reform.[2]
Benjamin was appointed the first female Director of the Ohio Department of Insurance by Gov. Bob Taft in January 2003. In 2007, she was named director of the Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education. In 2011, was elected to the Aurora City Council and in 2012 appointed to the Ohio Tuition Trust Authority by Governor John Kasich.[2]
In 2013, Benjamin announced her bid for mayor of Aurora, Ohio.[3] She won the position with 34.58 percent of the vote.[4]
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