Janis Ringhand (born February 13, 1950) is a member of the

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from

Evansville Evansville is a city in, and the county seat of, Vanderburgh County, Indiana, United States. The population was 118,414 at the 2020 census, making it the state's third-most populous city after Indianapolis and Fort Wayne, the largest city in ...

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. An accountant and former director of a

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, she previously served in the

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. Ringhand graduated from

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in 1985, and served as the Mayor of

from 2002 to 2006. A

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, Ringhand was elected to the Assembly in 2010, unseating

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incumbent

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, and re-elected in 2012. In 2014, with the announced retirement of state senator Tim Cullen, Ringhand ran for Cullen's seat rather than seek re-election to the Assembly. She won the Democratic primary election in August, with 6,157 votes to 5,883 for former Cullen aide Austin Scieszinski and 3,448 for former Assembly Speaker Michael J. Sheridan. On November 4, 2014, Ringhand was elected to the

.Jim Leute. "Janis Ringhand easily defeats Brian Fitzgerald in 15th senate race". ''Janesville Gazette'', November 4, 2014.

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