Michelle Madoff was a Canadian-born American municipal politician who served on the Pittsburgh City Council from 1978 to 1994.
11 Facts About Michelle Madoff
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Michelle Madoff moved to the United States in 1952, where she married Dr Henry R Madoff in 1958.
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Michelle Madoff settled in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh in 1961.
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Michelle Madoff co-founded and was the first president of the Pittsburgh-based organization, a local group with a long history of environmental activism.
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Michelle Madoff worked with Jones and Laughlin Steel Company to keep steel-working jobs in Pittsburgh.
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Michelle Madoff was unsuccessful in runs for Pittsburgh City Council in 1973 and Allegheny County Commissioner in 1975.
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Michelle Madoff was first elected in 1978 to fill the unexpired term of Richard Caliguiri.
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Michelle Madoff famously led a years long fight to have the one restroom that was available to City Council at the Pittsburgh City Hall redesigned to be used in a uni-sex fashion, hosting a "toilet party" for her supporters in April 1980 to celebrate her success.
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Michelle Madoff lost her council seat after being defeated in the 1993 Democratic primary.
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Michelle Madoff married Fred Scheske in 2001 and settled in Arizona.
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Michelle Madoff died at a retirement community in Peoria, Arizona on October 12,2013, aged 85, from leukemia.