Kalamazoo attorney Jessica Swartz is making a run for the Democratic nomination for U.S. House with the aim of challenging Republican U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga next year, she said.
Swartz, 46, is senior counsel for the firm Miller Johnson and previously worked at Western Michigan University and for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington as an appellate attorney through 2016, she said. Starting 2017, she volunteered with the nonpartisan group Voters Not Politicians, which promoted the 2018 Michigan ballot proposal that established a citizens redistricting commission.
"I'm really looking forward to supporting the honest, hardworking people in this district who play by the rules," she said in an interview. "I would like to stop the gridlock in Congress and work on the issues that the vast majority of us agree on. And some of those are the economy, the environment and the extreme attacks on women."
