Lois Frankel
U.S. Representative from FL, District 22
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Lois Frankel is a Democratic U.S. Representative from Florida's 22nd District, a senior Appropriations Committee member and former mayor of West Palm Beach.
Lois J. Frankel is the U.S. Representative for Florida's 22nd Congressional District, a Democrat first elected in 2012 and currently serving her seventh term representing a Palm Beach County coastal district including West Palm Beach and Boca Raton. A graduate of Boston University with a B.A. and Georgetown University Law School with a J.D., Frankel worked as a civil-rights and consumer-protection attorney and served in the Florida House of Representatives for fourteen years, earning distinction as the first woman minority leader in Florida history in 1995. She became the first female mayor of West Palm Beach, serving two terms from 2003 to 2011 before entering Congress. In the 119th Congress, she serves as Ranking Member of the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Subcommittee and on the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, and co-chairs the Bipartisan Women's Caucus, focusing on women's health and rights, national security, Israel, and aging.