Deb Kennedy is serving her first term as State Representative for the 23rd House District, which covers Brownstown Township, Flat Rock, Gibraltar, Grosse Ile Township, Huron Township, Rockwood, Sumpter Township and Woodhaven. She serves on the House Committees on Education, Intergovernmental Affairs, Great Lakes and Environment, and Labor, on which she serves as Vice-Chair.
As State Representative, Kennedy is committed to making sure our schools have the resources they need to ensure our children can compete in the 21st century global economy, helping businesses provide health care benefits to their employees, fighting to help lower the cost of prescription drugs, working to preserve our natural resources and fighting to stop companies from bringing out-of-state and Canadian trash to Michigan. Kennedy is sponsor of legislation to stand up for Michigan residents who have been damaged by dangerous prescription drugs by repealing a state law that gives drug companies complete immunity when their products harm or kill. She also sponsors legislation to encourage the state and businesses to buy American-made products and a bill to ban the use of a hazardous, toxic chemical used as a flame retardant in certain electronics and upholstery.
Kennedy, who was senior sales director for Mary Kay cosmetics, began her career for the company as an independent consultant 30 years ago. She also formerly served as an Executive Director for a non-profit agency that offered direct human services including a 24 hour crisis telephone hotline, senior transportation, parent aides, Toys for Tots and much more. Kennedy served as Trustee on the Woodhaven-Brownstown Board of Education and continues to serve on their education foundation board of directors. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Sociology from Central Michigan University.
Representative Kennedy is an active member of the Wyandotte First Presbyterian Church, having served on the church’s governing body, and as chair of its strategic planning task force. She is also active in many local charitable organizations and social groups including: Downriver Council for the Arts, Flat Rock Soroptomists, Friends of the Detroit River, Woodhaven Relay for Life, American Association of University Women and Brownstown Moose. She assisted in the creation of a program that offered free mammogram screenings at a local hospital and worked to relocate Hurricane Katrina victims in Michigan. She also helped prevent a medical waste incinerator from being built in Brownstown. A long-time resident of Brownstown Township, Representative Kennedy and her husband, Alex, have been married for 32 years and have raised two sons together.
As State Representative, Kennedy is committed to making sure our schools have the resources they need to ensure our children can compete in the 21st century global economy, helping businesses provide health care benefits to their employees, fighting to help lower the cost of prescription drugs, working to preserve our natural resources and fighting to stop companies from bringing out-of-state and Canadian trash to Michigan. Kennedy is sponsor of legislation to stand up for Michigan residents who have been damaged by dangerous prescription drugs by repealing a state law that gives drug companies complete immunity when their products harm or kill. She also sponsors legislation to encourage the state and businesses to buy American-made products and a bill to ban the use of a hazardous, toxic chemical used as a flame retardant in certain electronics and upholstery.
Kennedy, who was senior sales director for Mary Kay cosmetics, began her career for the company as an independent consultant 30 years ago. She also formerly served as an Executive Director for a non-profit agency that offered direct human services including a 24 hour crisis telephone hotline, senior transportation, parent aides, Toys for Tots and much more. Kennedy served as Trustee on the Woodhaven-Brownstown Board of Education and continues to serve on their education foundation board of directors. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Sociology from Central Michigan University.
Representative Kennedy is an active member of the Wyandotte First Presbyterian Church, having served on the church’s governing body, and as chair of its strategic planning task force. She is also active in many local charitable organizations and social groups including: Downriver Council for the Arts, Flat Rock Soroptomists, Friends of the Detroit River, Woodhaven Relay for Life, American Association of University Women and Brownstown Moose. She assisted in the creation of a program that offered free mammogram screenings at a local hospital and worked to relocate Hurricane Katrina victims in Michigan. She also helped prevent a medical waste incinerator from being built in Brownstown. A long-time resident of Brownstown Township, Representative Kennedy and her husband, Alex, have been married for 32 years and have raised two sons together.