30 Facts About Judy Biggert

Judith Biggert is an American politician and attorney.

Judy Biggert is the former US Representative for, serving from 1999 to 2013.

Judy Biggert was defeated in her 2012 re-election bid by former US Congressman Bill Foster.

Judy Biggert was the last Republican woman elected to Congress from Illinois until the election of Mary Miller of the 15th congressional district in 2020.

Judy Biggert was born Judith Gail Borg in Chicago on August 15,1937, the second of four children of Alvin Andrew Borg and Marjorie Virginia Borg.

Judy Biggert then attended Northwestern University School of Law where she was an editor of the Northwestern University Law Review from 1961 to 1963, earned a JD in 1963, then clerked for federal judge Luther Merritt Swygert of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 1963 to 1964.

Judy Biggert left her federal court law clerkship to have her children, but later did some legal work from her home for family and friends on wills, trusts, and real estate.

Judy Biggert served on numerous boards of voluntary and civic organizations.

Judy Biggert was elected to the Hinsdale Township High School District 86 Board of Education in 1978 and was a board member until 1985, serving as president from 1983 to 1985.

Judy Biggert served as chairman of the Hinsdale Plan Commission from 1989 to 1993.

Judy Biggert became active in Chicago community organizations, serving as chair of the Visiting Nurses Association and as president of the Junior League.

In 1992, Judy Biggert was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives to serve the redrawn 81st District.

Judy Biggert was re-elected in 1994 and 1996 before running for Congress in 1998.

Judy Biggert was a member of The Republican Main Street Partnership and Republicans for Choice.

Judy Biggert was one of 171 of the 178 Republican US House members in the 111th Congress to have signed Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform Taxpayer Protection Pledge:.

Judy Biggert supported making all of the Bush tax cuts permanent, regardless of income.

Judy Biggert supported the repeal of the 2010 Democratic health care reform and its replacement with Republican health care reform.

Judy Biggert opposed allowing individuals less than 65 years of age to buy into Medicare.

Judy Biggert opposed any comprehensive immigration reform that provides a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants and supports efforts against illegal immigration.

Judy Biggert opposed public financing of federal election campaigns, and supported the elimination of all limits on campaign contributions with immediate and full disclosure of contributions.

Judy Biggert voted against the 2006 Federal Marriage Amendment, a proposed constitutional amendment intended to ban gay marriage.

Judy Biggert supported repealing the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, but opposed repealing the Defense of Marriage Act which prohibited federal recognition of same-sex marriages.

In 1998, Judy Biggert narrowly defeated conservative state Senator Peter Roskam in the Republican primary, the real contest in this ancestrally Republican district.

Judy Biggert's district was renumbered as the 11th District, and made significantly more Democratic even though it contains 50 percent of Biggert's former territory.

Judy Biggert opted to run in the new 11th against the Democratic nominee, former 14th District Congressman Bill Foster.

Rody and Judy Biggert lived in Chicago, then Wilmette, before moving to Hinsdale in 1971, when Rody's mother sold them her home, the extensively remodeled 1864 mansion of Hinsdale's founder, William Robbins, in the Robbins Park Historic District.

Since 2004, Judy Biggert's youngest daughter Adrienne Morrell has been a registered lobbyist for Health Net, the sixth largest publicly traded for-profit managed healthcare company; previously Morrell was a lobbyist with America's Health Insurance Plans, the chief health insurance industry lobby, after having served as an aide to former seven-term Illinois 13th District US Rep.

Judy Biggert was president of the Junior Board of the Chicago Travelers Aid Society in 1969, and president of the Junior League of Chicago from 1976 to 1978, chairman of board of directors of the Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago in 1978, and president of the Oak School elementary school PTA in Hinsdale from 1976 to 1978.

Judy Biggert was a member of the board of directors of the Salt Creek Ballet from 1990 to 1998.

Judy Biggert was a Sunday school teacher at Grace Episcopal Church in Hinsdale from 1974 to 1984, and an American Youth Soccer Organization assistant soccer coach in 1983.