Wendy Ullman is an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, she represented the 143rd district in 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 ...

from 2019 to 2021.

Formative years

Born on July 29, 1952, in Oneida, New York, Ullman graduated from Watertown High School in 1970, and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in English by the

State University of New York at Potsdam The State University of New York at Potsdam (SUNY Potsdam or, colloquially, Potsdam) is a public college in Potsdam, New York. It is the northernmost member of the State University of New York (SUNY) system. Founded in 1816, it is among the ...

in 1974. She was then awarded a Master of Arts degree in English by the University of Maine in 1976.

Academic career

Before assuming office, Ullman worked as an English professor at Bucks County Community College. She began work there in 1988, and also worked as an educator at Delaware Valley College from 1995 to 1997. In addition, she has been a member of the English department faculty at

Montgomery County Community College Montgomery County Community College (MCCC or Montco) is a public community college in Blue Bell in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. MCCC also has two satellite locations, Pottstown Campus and Culinary Arts Institute in Lansdale. It is accredite ...

since 1993.

Legislative career

On November 6, 2018, Ullman became one of a record number of female lawmakers elected to Pennsylvania's General Assembly. They were sworn in on January 1, 2019. At that time, women still made up only twenty-five percent of the state legislature; conversely, women made up fifty-one percent of the population in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Elected to represent the 143rd district in the

, she served in that capacity from 2019 to 2021. In 2019, Ullman introduced HB 1322 to implement a five-cent beverage deposit fee, which would be returned to the consumer upon the return of the bottle. The legislation was designed to increase the rates of recycling in Pennsylvania with unclaimed bottle deposit reimbursements forfeited to the state and used to support the commonwealth's Hazardous Sites Clean-Up fund. That same year, she was appointed to the Pennsylvania Statewide Suicide Prevention Task Force and to the Pennsylvania Higher Education Funding Commission. She held both posts until 2020. In 2020, she ran for re-election to the Pennsylvania House as an uncontested candidate during the Pennsylvania primaries. She then ran against, but was defeated by, Republican Shelby Labs during the general election on November 3 by a margin of 51.5 percent to 48.5%.

Written works

* Ullman, Wendy. "We must fight against the normalization of mass murder" (op-ed), in ''The Morning Call'', August 9, 2019.Ullman, Wendy.
We must fight against the normalization of mass murder
" Allentown, Pennsylvania: ''The Morning Call'', August 9, 2019, p. A15 (subscription required).

References

External links

Official website
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