Lita Indzel Cohen (born December 20, 1940) is a former

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member of the

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. Cohen is a 1958 graduate of

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. She graduated from the

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in 1962 and earned her law degree from the

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in 1965. Her husband, Stanley, is Senior Counsel with

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in Philadelphia. She was the first woman elected to the Lower Merion Township Planning Commission and served as Lower Merion Township Commissioner for eight years. She was first elected to represent the 148th legislative district in the

in 1993. She was the Republican nominee in the November 6, 2001

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in the 17th senatorial district to succeed

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, who retired on August 31, 2001. She lost to fellow State Representative

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. She did not run for re-election for her House of Representatives seat in 2002 and was succeeded by fellow Republican

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* official PA House profile (archived) {{DEFAULTSORT:Cohen, Lita Living people Republican Party members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Women state legislators in Pennsylvania 1940 births Lower Merion High School alumni University of Pennsylvania Law School alumni 21st-century American women