Gregory Scott is a Democratic member of the

Pennsylvania House of Representatives The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Pennsylvania General Assembly, the legislature of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. There are 203 members, elected for two-year terms from single member districts. It ...

, representing the 54th District since 2023.

Biography

A native of

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, Scott served as a non-voting junior borough councilman and a volunteer firefighter and EMT as a teenager. He went on to earn a bachelor's degree in business communications from

Chestnut Hill College Chestnut Hill College is a private Catholic college in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The college was founded in 1924 as a women's college by the Sisters of St. Joseph. It was originally named Mount Saint Joseph College ...

, and a master's degree in organizational leadership from the

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in 2013. Scott worked as a congressional aide to U.S. Representatives

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and

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, and as chief of staff to the CEO of Universal Companies, a nonprofit founded by

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. Scott was elected a magisterial district judge in November 2015, becoming the first African American district judge in Montgomery County and (at 28) the youngest sitting judge in Pennsylvania. He resigned in February 2022 to run for the

in the 54th District, which was redistricted from Western Pennsylvania to Montgomery County. He was elected on November 8, 2022, defeating

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Allen Arthur Anderson by 72% to 28%.

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