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Judy Biggert
Judy Biggert Official.jpg
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Illinois's 13th district
In office
January 3, 1999 – January 3, 2013
Preceded by Harris Fawell
Succeeded by Rodney Davis
Member of the Illinois House of Representatives
from the 81st district
In office
January 1993 – January 1999
Preceded by Thomas McCracken
Succeeded by Patricia Bellock
Personal details
Born Carolyn Jean Cheeks
(1937-08-15) August 15, 1937 (age 86)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Political party Republican
Spouse(s) Rody Biggert
Children Courtney
Alison
Rody
Adrienne
Alma mater Stanford University
Northwestern University
Religion Episcopalianism

Judith Borg "Judy" Biggert (born August 15, 1937) is the former U.S. Representative for Illinois's 13th congressional district, serving from 1999 to 2013. She is a member of the Republican Party.

Biggert was defeated in her 2012 re-election bid by former US Congressman Bill Foster. Due to redistricting, she ran in the reconfigured 11th congressional district.

Early life, education and career

Biggert was born Judith Gail Borg in Chicago on August 15, 1937, the second of four children of Alvin Andrew Borg and Marjorie Virginia (Mailler) Borg. Her father Alvin A. Borg worked for the Chicago-based Walgreen Co., the largest drugstore chain in the United States, for 41 years from 1928 to 1969, and served as its president from 1963 to 1969, succeeding Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. and succeeded by Charles R. Walgreen III.[1] Her paternal grandparents immigrated from Finland and her maternal family is of English descent.[2]

She grew up in Wilmette, Illinois, a North Shore Chicago suburb, and graduated from New Trier High School in 1955, then went to Stanford University, where she received a B.A. in international relations in 1959, then worked for a year in a women's apparel store.[3][4] She then attended Northwestern University School of Law where she was an editor of the Northwestern University Law Review from 1961 to 1963, earned a J.D. in 1963, then clerked for federal judge Luther Merritt Swygert of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 1963 to 1964.[5]

Biggert left her federal court law clerkship to have her children, but later did some legal work from her home for family and friends on wills, trusts and real estate.[4][6] She served on numerous boards of voluntary and civic organizations.[4][6]

Early political career

Biggert was elected to the Hinsdale Township High School District 86 Board of Education in 1978 and was a board member until 1985, serving as president from 1983 to 1985.[5] She served as chairman of the Hinsdale Plan Commission from 1989 to 1993.[5]

In 1992, Biggert was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives to serve the redrawn 81st District. She was re-elected in 1994 and 1996 before running for Congress in 1998.

U.S. House of Representatives

Judy Biggert delivering the keynote address on nanoscience and national competitiveness at the DOE Nanoscale Science Research Centers (NSRC) Workshop in February 2003.

Committee assignments

Caucus memberships

Voting record

Interest group ratings

ACLU ACU ADA AFL-CIO AFSCME ChC CfG Con FRC ITIC LCV NTLC* NTU USCC
1999[7][8] 60 30 11 16 21 31 59 96
2000[7][8] 50 68 20 0 0 60 5 94 26 70 56 100
2001[9][10] 56 20 17 10 21 61 100
2002[9][10] 53 84 15 11 0 50 58 100 38 73 59 100
2003[11][12] 60 10 13 13 25 59 100
2004[11][12] 30 64 35 13 0 61 100 18 70 60 100
2005[13][14] 60 20 13 0 61 54 22 53 89
2006[13][14] 41 64 30 21 0 54 0 100 33 59 93
2007[15][16] 68 30 42 18 67 55 65 85
2008[15][16] 27 84 35 20 14 65 35 71 38 63 94
2009 80 20 13 22 77 29 73 95

* NTLC – National Tax-Limitation Committee

Key votes

106th Congress (1999–2000)[7][8]
107th Congress (2001–2002)[9][10]
108th Congress (2003–2004)[11][12]
109th Congress (2005–2006)[13][14]
110th Congress (2007–2008)[15][16]
111th Congress, 1st Session (2009)[17]
Vote Bill
Yes Authorize the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco products
Yes Rule for floor debate on the fiscal 2010 Commerce-Justice-Science appropriations bill that restricted the number of amendments to the bill that could be offered
Yes Comprehensive food safety bill, after a string of food-borne illnesses shook the public's confidence and left key industry players searching for ways to reassure consumers
Yes Cash for clunkers – replenish a federal fund that offered as much as $4,500 to car owners who traded in fuel-inefficient vehicles for newer, more fuel efficient vehicles
Yes Stupak amendment to health reform legislation to restrict insurance coverage for abortions
No State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) expansion
No Economic stimulus – $787 billion bill to help stimulate the economy through a combination of spending and tax cuts
No Mortgage loan modification – allow bankruptcy judges to write down the principal and interest rates of existing loans to a home's current market value
No Climate change mitigation – create a cap-and-trade system to limit emissions of greenhouse gases; require electric utilities to produce some of their power from renewable sources
No Student loan overhaul – establish the government as the sole provider of student loans and provide billions of dollars in savings toward various scholarship and education programs
No Health care reform legislation aimed at insuring most Americans and paid for with a controversial combination of reductions in Medicare spending and tax increases
111th Congress, 2nd Session (2010)
Vote Bill
Yes Continuing Extension Act of 2010 – $18 billion unemployment benefits extension to June 2, 2010[18]
Yes Allow repeal of "Don't ask, don't tell" policy 60 days after receipt of Pentagon recommendations due December 1, 2010[19]
No Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act / Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010[20]
No Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act[21]
No Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2010 – $34 billion unemployment benefits extension to November 30, 2010[22]
No Aid to states – $26 billion to fund education jobs and Medicaid[23]
No Small Business Jobs and Credit Act of 2010 – $42 billion to provide capital to small banks and tax cuts for small businesses[24]

Political positions

Biggert was a member of The Republican Main Street Partnership and Republicans for Choice.

Taxes

Biggert was one of 171 of the 178 Republican U.S. House members in the 111th Congress to have signed Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform Taxpayer Protection Pledge:[25]

Biggert supported making all of the Bush tax cuts permanent, regardless of income.[26]

Social security, healthcare, and Medicaid

Biggert supported the partial privatization of Social Security, in which individuals could choose to voluntarily divert 2% of their Social Security tax payments from paying Social Security beneficiaries into individual private accounts which they could invest in the stock market and which they could pass on to their heirs.[27][28]

Biggert supported the repeal (or defunding to prevent implementation) of the 2010 Democratic health care reform and its replacement with Republican health care reform.[28]

Biggert opposed allowing individuals less than 65 years of age to buy into Medicare.[29]

Illegal immigration

Biggert opposed any comprehensive immigration reform that provides a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants and supports the message sent by Arizona SB 1070.[28]

Campaign finance

Biggert opposed public financing of federal election campaigns, and supported the elimination of all limits on campaign contributions with immediate and full disclosure of contributions.[30]

Don't ask, don't tell

Biggert supported repealing the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, but opposed repealing the Defense of Marriage Act which prohibited federal recognition of same-sex marriages.[28]

Political campaigns

1998

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In 1998, Biggert narrowly defeated conservative state Senator Peter Roskam in the Republican primary, the real contest in this ancestrally Republican district. Biggert earned 61% of the vote to win the seat opened up by the retirement of U. S. Representative Harris Fawell. In 2006, Roskam was elected to Congress from another district.

2006

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In 2006, Biggert's share of the vote in the general election fell below 60% for the first time in her Congressional career.

2008

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In 2008, Biggert received less than 54% of the vote overall (and less than 50% of the vote in Will County) in winning reelection to her sixth term in Congress in her first general election campaign against a financially competitive opponent, businessman Scott Harper. In 2008, Democratic U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin was reelected with 60% of the vote and Democrat Barack Obama won 54% of the vote in the 13th Congressional District,[15] with even Biggert's Republican predecessor, Fawell, supporting Obama.[31]

2010

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Biggert won re-election.

2012

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In the redistricting following the 2010 census, the Democratic-controlled state legislature significantly altered Illinois's congressional map, splitting Biggert's district. Her district was renumbered as the 11th District, and made significantly more Democratic even though it contains 50 percent of Biggert's former territory. A portion of her former district that included Biggert's home in Hinsdale was combined with the heavily Democratic Chicago North Side-based 5th District. Biggert opted to run in the new 11th against the Democratic nominee, former 14th District Congressman Bill Foster.[32]

Electoral history

Illinois House, 81st Representative District (1992–1996)

  • 1992 Republican primary[33]
    • Judy Biggert – 5,284  (38%)
    • James P. McCarthy – 3,498  (25%)
    • Todd Vandermyde – 1,861  (13%)
    • Andrew J. (Andy) Clark – 1,758  (12%)
    • John Curry – 1,684  (12%)
  • 1992 general election[34]
    • Judy Biggert (R) – 28,655  (69%)
    • David M. Briggs (D) – 12,918  (31%)
  • 1994 Republican primary[35]
    • Judy Biggert – 6,100  (54%)
    • James P. McCarthy – 5,219  (46%)
  • 1994 general election[36]
    • Judy Biggert (R) – 22,227  (78.51%)
    • Bill Chalberg (D) – 6,085  (21%)
  • 1996 Republican primary[37]
    • Judy Biggert – 14,142  (100%)
  • 1996 general election[38]
    • Judy Biggert (R) – 28,597  (71%)
    • Dave Brockway (D) – 11,573  (29%)

U.S. House, Illinois 13th Congressional District (1998– )

  • 1998 Republican primary[39]
    • Judy Biggert – 24,482  (45%)
    • Peter Roskam – 21,784  (40%)
    • David J. Shestokas – 2,574  (5%)
    • Michael J. Krzyston – 2,566  (5%)
    • Andrew J. Clark – 1,926  (4%)
    • Walter Marksym – 1,035  (2%)
  • 1998 general election[40]
    • Judy Biggert (R) – 121,889  (61%)  $1,294,853*[8]
    • Susan W. Hynes (D) – 77,878  (39%)  $222,656*[8]
  • 2000 Republican primary[41]
    • Judy Biggert – 39,121  (100%)
  • 2000 general election[42]
    • Judy Biggert (R) – 193,250  (66%)  $381,623*[8]
    • Thomas Mason (D) – 98,768  (34%)
  • 2002 Republican primary[43]
    • Judy Biggert – 70,691  (100%)
  • 2002 general election[44]
    • Judy Biggert (R) – 139,456  (70%)  $464,054*[12]
    • Tom Mason (D) – 59,069  (30%)
  • 2004 Republican primary[45]
    • Judy Biggert – 46,861  (>99%)
    • Bob Hart (write-in) – 231  (<1%)
  • 2004 general election[46]
    • Judy Biggert (R) – 200,472  (65%)             $542,733*[12]
    • Gloria Schor Andersen (D) – 107,836  (35%)  $42,129*[12]
    • Mark Alan Mastrogiovanni (write-in) – 4  (0%)
  • 2006 Republican primary[47]
    • Judy Biggert – 52,900  (80%)
    • Bob Hart – 13,564  (20%)
  • 2006 general election[48]
    • Judy Biggert (R) – 119,720  (58%)  $1,014,819*[15]
    • Joseph Shannon (D) – 85,507  (42%)   $225,842*[15]
    • Mark Alan Mastrogiovanni (write-in) – 7  (0%)
  • 2008 Republican primary[49]
    • Judy Biggert – 58,533  (77%)
    • Sean O'Kane – 17,206  (23%)
  • 2008 general election[50]
    • Judy Biggert (R) – 180,888  (54%)  $1,585,536*[15]
    • Scott Harper (D) – 147,430  (44%)    $1,070,201*[15]
    • Steve Alesch (Green) – 9,402  (3%)
    • Theodore Knapp (write-in) – 51  (0%)
  • 2010 Republican primary[51]
    • Judy Biggert – 58,294  (100%)
  • 2010 general election

*  campaign expenditures
** campaign contributions (through September 30, 2010)

Post-congressional career

On April 23, 2015, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner appointed Biggert to the Education Labor Relations Board, which oversees the negotiation of teacher contracts.[52]

Personal life

On September 21, 1963,[53] she married Rody Patterson Biggert, Jr. Rody and Judy Biggert lived in Chicago, then Wilmette,[54] before moving to Hinsdale in 1971, when Rody's mother sold them her home, the extensively remodeled 1864 mansion of Hinsdale's founder, William Robbins, in the Robbins Park Historic District.[55] The Biggerts have four children: Courtney Caverly, Alison Cabot,[56] Rody Biggert,[54] and Adrienne Morrell,[57][58] and nine grandchildren.[5]

Since 2004, Biggert's youngest daughter Adrienne Morrell has been a registered lobbyist for Health Net, the sixth largest publicly traded for-profit managed healthcare company; previously Morrell was a lobbyist with America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the chief health insurance industry lobby, after having served as an aide to former seven-term Illinois 13th District U.S. Rep. Harris Fawell, Biggert's predecessor in Congress.[57][58]

In 2008, multimillionaire Biggert was the second wealthiest—after U.S. Rep. Bill Foster (D-14)—in Illinois's 21-member Congressional delegation, and the 82nd wealthiest member in the U.S. House.[59]

Biggert was president of the Junior Board of the Chicago Travelers Aid Society in 1969, and president of the Junior League of Chicago from 1976 to 1978, chairman of board of directors of the Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago in 1978, and president of the Oak School elementary school PTA in Hinsdale from 1976 to 1978. She was a member of the board of directors of the Salt Creek Ballet from 1990 to 1998. She was also a Sunday school teacher at Grace Episcopal Church in Hinsdale from 1974 to 1984, and an American Youth Soccer Organization assistant soccer coach in 1983.[5][5]

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  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. She became a law clerk to a federal judge, leaving to have her first child. She now practices on her own, handling mostly real estate and estate business for family and friends.
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    Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Question: What should Congress do to ensure continued viability of Medicare? Judy Biggert: The first thing we should not do is lower the Medicare eligibility age to 55, as the president has proposed.
  30. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Hynes has voiced support for public funding of congressional campaigns, a proposal Biggert opposes. Biggert favors an end to the limits on campaign contributions—now $1,000 for individuals and $5,000 for political action committees—but would require quicker disclosure of all donations.
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Illinois House of Representatives
Preceded by
Thomas McCracken
Member of the Illinois House of Representatives
from the 81st district

1993–1999
Succeeded by
Patricia Bellock
United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Illinois's 13th congressional district

1999–2013
Succeeded by
Rodney Davis
Preceded by Chairperson of the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues
2001–2003
Succeeded by
Shelley Moore Capito