Donna M. Nesselbush (born August 9, 1962) is an American lawyer, judge and politician from

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. A

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, she served in the Rhode Island Senate, representing the 15th district. She took office on January 4, 2011 and did not seek re-election in 2020. A graduate of

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(class of 1984), Nesselbush worked as executive director of the Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence from 1984 to 1991. She attended Suffolk University School of Law, earning a

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in 1991. In 2012, Nesselbush completed Harvard University's

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program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government as a

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LGBTQ Victory Institute Leadership Fellow. A founding partner of the law firm of Marasco & Nesselbush, she has been an active member of the

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, chairing its social security committee. She was appointed an associate municipal court judge in Pawtucket in 2004 and has served since. In 2010, she declared her candidacy for the 15th district seat in the Rhode Island Senate. Incumbent

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, a fellow Democrat and fellow judge of the Pawtucket municipal court, subsequently announced that he would not be seeking a nineteenth term in office. Nesselbush won both the primary and general elections unopposed. Nesselbush is openly gay. Nesselbush did not seek re-election in 2020.

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