Candidate · State House, District 7
Tonya Myers Phillips
What this job does: Your district's vote in the Michigan House of Representatives. Members write and vote on state laws and the state budget. A term is two years, with a limit of 12 years total in the Legislature.
- Holds this seat now
- Yes
- Office
- State Representative, House District 7 (since 2025)
- Occupation
- State Representative; attorney
- Lives in
- Detroit
Background
- Bachelor's and law degrees from the University of Michigan. source: housedems.com
- Attorney; began at the Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice and later worked as a housing attorney with Michigan Legal Services. source: housedems.com
- Co-founder of the Detroit Right to Counsel Coalition; adjunct professor at Wayne State University Law School since 2022. source: housedems.com
- Member of the Detroit Charter Revision Commission, 2010-2012. source: housedems.com
- Won the 7th State House District race in November 2024; serving a first term. source: sugarlaw.org
- House committee assignments include Energy and Natural Resources and Tourism. source: housedems.com
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