Jill Morgenthaler was the 2008 Democratic nominee for Illinois' 6th congressional district, defeating Stan Jagla in the primary.
11 Facts About Jill Morgenthaler
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Jill Morgenthaler was a retired colonel in the United States Army, where she served for nearly 30 years.
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Jill Morgenthaler received a Masters of Strategic Studies from the Army War College, a Masters of Arts in international policy studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, and a Bachelor of Arts from Pennsylvania State University.
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Jill Morgenthaler enrolled in the ROTC at Pennsylvania State University, where she was one of ten women in the program who received full scholarships to trailblaze the integration of women into the program.
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Jill Morgenthaler was the first female company commander in the Army Security Agency Group Korea, the first woman battalion commander in the 88th Regional Support Command, and the first woman brigade commander in the 84th Division.
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Jill Morgenthaler had served in Korea, Berlin, Bosnia, and Iraq.
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Jill Morgenthaler handled disaster recovery during the San Francisco earthquake of 1989.
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Jill Morgenthaler was appointed by the Illinois Democratic Governor, Rod Blagojevich, to serve as a homeland security adviser in Illinois.
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In 2008 Jill Morgenthaler ran, as a non-resident of the 6th congressional district after the district line was redrawn by the Republican Party when US Congressman Henry Hyde was in office.
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Jill Morgenthaler was four blocks outside of the 6th Congressional District and had lived in Des Plaines, Illinois, for 16 years with her husband and two teenage children.
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Jill Morgenthaler died on February 23,2019, in the Dominican Republic when she collapsed after scuba diving.