Heidi Campbell is an American music publisher and politician from
Tennessee
Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to th ...
. A
Democrat
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, Campbell has represented the
20th district of the
Tennessee Senate
The Tennessee Senate is the upper house of the U.S. state of Tennessee's state legislature, which is known formally as the Tennessee General Assembly.
The Tennessee Senate has the power to pass resolutions concerning essentially any issue rega ...
, covering the inner suburbs of
Nashville
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, since 2020.
Campbell was first elected in
2020
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, narrowly winning the Democratic primary before defeating two-term
Republican
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incumbent
Steven Dickerson
Steven Dickerson is an American politician and a former Republican member of the Tennessee Senate, representing District 20 from January 8, 2013 until November 3, 2020.
Education
Dickerson earned his BA in history from Sewanee: The Universit ...
, 51.7% to 48.3%. Before running for the Senate, she served as mayor of
Oak Hill, a small suburb south of Nashville from 2014 to 2020.
Campbell is a music marketing director and has owned her own music publishing company since 1995.
In April 2022, Campbell announced her candidacy for
Tennessee's 5th congressional district after incumbent
Jim Cooper
James Hayes Shofner Cooper (born June 19, 1954) is an American lawyer, businessman, professor, and politician who served as the U.S. representative for (based in Nashville and containing parts of Davidson, Cheatham, and Dickson Counties) from ...
chose to retire.
She did not have to give up her state senate seat to run for Congress; Tennessee state senators serve staggered four-year terms, and Campbell is not up for reelection until 2024.
References
External links
Hedi Campbell for Congresscampaign website
official legislative website
21st-century American politicians
21st-century American women politicians
Candidates in the 2022 United States House of Representatives elections
Living people
People from Davidson County, Tennessee
Democratic Party Tennessee state senators
Women state legislators in Tennessee
Year of birth missing (living people)
Women mayors of places in Tennessee
American music publishers (people)
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