1. Maria Nicole Chappelle-Nadal was born on October 3,1974 and is an American politician who served in the Missouri House of Representatives from the 86th district from 2019 to 2021.
28 Facts About Maria Chappelle-Nadal
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Maria Chappelle-Nadal previously served in the Missouri House of Representatives from district 72, a position which she held from 2005 to 2011.
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In 2010, Chappelle-Nadal was elected to the Missouri Senate to succeed fellow Democrat Rita Heard Days of St Louis.
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On September 13,2017, Maria Chappelle-Nadal was formally censured by the Missouri State Senate for her comments.
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Maria Chappelle-Nadal announced her candidacy in the 2024 United States House of Representatives elections in Missouri against incumbent Cori Bush and prosecutor Wesley Bell, asserting that she has more legislative experience than both candidates combined.
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Maria Chappelle-Nadal received a dual degree in political science and sociology from Georgia State University.
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Maria Chappelle-Nadal is a former participant in the Sue Shear Institute for Women in Public Life and the Neighborhood Leadership Academy at the University of Missouri-St Louis.
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Maria Chappelle-Nadal was first elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 2004, representing District 72.
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Maria Chappelle-Nadal was re-elected in 2006 and 2008, serving in this office until her successful state senate campaign in 2010.
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Maria Chappelle-Nadal was first elected state senator of District 14 in 2010, and successfully ran for re-election in 2014.
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Maria Chappelle-Nadal chose not to run for reelection in 2018 and was succeeded by Democrat Brian Williams, who won a three-way primary and was unopposed in the general election.
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In February 2012, Maria Chappelle-Nadal led a 14-hour filibuster of a bill that would have weakened existing law preventing discrimination in the workplace.
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Maria Chappelle-Nadal herself filibustered the bill for 10 hours and 45 minutes of the 14-hour filibuster.
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Maria Chappelle-Nadal filibustered the bill because St Louis County had not agreed to a consent decree proposed by the Department of Justice that was offered to the Ferguson Police Department following the use of tear gas and excessive force against protesters.
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Maria Chappelle-Nadal has raised awareness of radioactive waste in the St Louis region.
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In 2012, Maria Chappelle-Nadal wrote an article for Patch Media in which she criticized the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to clean up the waste and acknowledge the threat posed by its existence in the West Lake Landfill.
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In January 2016, Maria Chappelle-Nadal proposed Senate Bill 600 which would have created a buyout program of contaminated homes near the Bridgeton Landfill.
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In 2017, Maria Chappelle-Nadal proposed Senate Bill 22 which would create a $12 million buyout program that would purchase homes contaminated with radioactive waste within a radius of the Bridgeton Landfills.
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On September 6,2015, Maria Chappelle-Nadal held her first town hall meeting in St Louis regarding radioactive waste resulting from processing uranium ore for the Manhattan Project during World War II.
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Maria Chappelle-Nadal has since held 70 town hall meetings and aims to hold a total of 100 town hall meetings by the end of 2017.
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Maria Chappelle-Nadal believes that part of the solution is to convene a congressional investigatory panel focusing on the EPA's inaction on legacy nuclear waste contamination in the St Louis region.
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Maria Chappelle-Nadal is a former member of the Democratic National Committee, serving from 2005 to 2009.
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Maria Chappelle-Nadal served as the director of boards and commissions, later becoming Missouri's senior advocate.
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Maria Chappelle-Nadal currently serves as director on the University City School Board.
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Maria Chappelle-Nadal filed a discrimination claim over her dismissal, which was settled in 2023.
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Maria Chappelle-Nadal took part in the protests over the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in August 2014.
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Maria Chappelle-Nadal criticized the police response to the civil unrest and the way the crisis was handled within the community.
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Maria Chappelle-Nadal asserted that institutional inequality is a major issue underpinning the unrest in Ferguson, contributing to tensions between police and an angered community: "I have to tell you that there has been systematic racism, institutionally in state government for decades, including my own state party," she said.