Elizabeth Schneider (born 1962) is an American politician from

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. Schneider served as a Democratic State Senator from

's 32nd District, representing part of Penobscot County, including the population centres of Orono and

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. She was first elected to the

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in 2004 after serving from 1996 to 2004 in the town government of Orono.Senator Elizabeth Schneider
Maine.gov Unable to run for re-election in 2012 due to term-limits, Schneider was replaced in the State Senate by Democratic State Representative

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Personal

Schneider and her family moved from

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a year after her birth in 1963. Schneider's parents were active in the peace and equal rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s. She graduated from an all-girls high school in Lower Manhattan and met her husband while studying at the

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. The couple moved to Orono in 1987.

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