About Linda
A local girl.
Collecting a Livonia Police pension.
Husband was a Livonia Police Sgt and his father, a Livonia fireman.
Born and raised in Redford Township. Attended Keeler Elementary, Hilbert Jr. High and graduated Class of 81' from Redford Union.
My grandparents were founders of Lola Park Lutheran in Redford where I attended.
Was a paramedic in Redford for many years and as a nurse worked at Livonia St.Marys in the Emergency Department.
The new district 12 is a perfect fit for me. I currently have a home in the former 12th, however, with redistricting it became outside the boundaries. I recently sold my Livonia home to retire but will just move back.
A registered nurse with a background in critical care, pulmonary and drug research, emergency, surgical intensive care; post liver transplants, vascular.
My research background was working within the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research Institute /Michigan Clinical Research Unit which was a multidisciplinary adult and pediatric center to include cancer and drug studies and funded by the NIH National Institutes of Health.Dr.Francis Collins, who headed the unit and a principle investigator left to be the Director the NIH. I have been grant funded from NIH for more than half my career as a research study coordinator for the division of Pulmonary & Critical Care at University of Michigan. I worked for the co-chair of our Institutional Review Board. (Research)
I understand the high cost of prescriptions. I understand our health care system.
This also means I can write grants for federal money earmarks for our districts so we wont lose that by voting Rashida out. I can probably bring in more money.. My studies were multi million dollar grants.
Advocate for the disabled: I have a developmentally disabled sister, which I help care for. This includes veterans.
I am a former small business/ corporation owner with import/export experience China, India.I have done China factory visits.I understand the red tape.
Political Achievements Past/Present:
- Candidate for U.S House of Representatives 12th District
- Candidate for U.S House of Representatives 13th District -I only ran for 2 months because Covid made me late with signatures. Spent $350 and came in 2nd. This tells me people are starting to care.
- Republican National Convention Delegate
- Wayne County Republican Committee Member
- Michigan Republican Party Victory Member
- Republican Nominated Candidate for State Representative (District 6. 13th Congressional- Detroit, Ecorse, River Rouge)
- State Convention Delegate
- 2016-present: Elected Republican Precinct Delegate
- Congressional District Member/Wayne County Republican Member
- Poll Challenger
- Attended Republican National Convention Cleveland 2016
- Presidential invitation and attended Donald J Trump's Inauguration and Swearing in as well as the Freedom Ball, General Motors PAC tickets to the Auto Alliance ball.
- Presidential Invitations and attended 70th & 75th D-day Anniversary American Cemetery Ceremonies with Presidents Trump and Macron; Obama; Colleville-sur-Mer, France.
- Pearl Harbor Day attendance yearly for around 10 years. Would like to attend as our state Congresswoman.
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Life Achievements , Community Involvement and Affiliations Past/Present:
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Registered Nurse [critical care, NIH research, emergency, medical researcher]
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Spent 3 months in Kokomo, IN helping get the ventilators distributed. My job was laundry, meals and evening drinks coordinated with the manager of the hotel who was also on Kokomo City Council. My boyfriend was General Motors Global IT Manufacturing and the guys who volunteered to go down were working 16hr days. What they pulled off in such a short amount of time was a testimate that our auto workers are amazing. It is that boyfriend who inspired Walt's bill. He died in my arms
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Livonia Police pensioner.
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Former paramedic
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National Institutes of Health Funded Researcher; National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Multimillion-dollar Funded Research.
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Published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
- Former small business/ corporation owner with import/export experience China, India.I have done China factory visits.
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Union labor negotiation team UMPNC/MNA 6000+ staff
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Killarney Lutheran Camp - WELS- Children's summer camp health director - non-profit org. - {volunteer over 30yrs}
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Michigan Nurses Association member
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Michigan Board of Realtors member
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University of Michigan Professional Nurse Council
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Graduate of Redford Union Class of 81'
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Started and headed a Model United Nations high school program-(volunteer)
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High school athletic coach-(volunteer)
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Headed a community non-profit after school athletic program-(volunteer)
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American Nurse Association member
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Alpha Xi Delta Women's National Sorority (Autism philanthropy)
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Edison-Ford home member
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Mote Marine Research Member
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REEF (Reef Environmental Education Foundation}
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Historic Fort Wayne Coalition
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The Turtle Hospital FL Keys. (I adopted a sea turtle named Hanson Bouy)
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Western Golf and Country Club
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Detroit Yacht Club Member
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Moose International Member 🫎
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PADI member
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Gaelic League - Irish American Club
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For Fun:
I am a boater so constantly on my boat during the summer. Getting my 100 ton captain's license in the fall because I like to boat on the Great Lakes.Love to scuba dive and have been on dives around the world. You get to integrate with different cultures, so this is where my love of diversity and ethnic foods came from. Not here. I am passionate about clean oceans ,our reef system and waterways. I have picked up garbage on the bottom of our oceans. Am an explorer, traveled with a backpack to over 20 countries and will stay in a hostel or Airbnb and hang with locals when out of the country to learn about where I am.
