EMILYs List Endorses Sec. of State Jocelyn Benson for Governor of Michigan

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, endorsed Sec. of State Jocelyn Benson for governor of Michigan. EMILYs List President Jessica Mackler released the following statement:

“EMILYs List is proud to support Jocelyn Benson to be Michigan’s next governor. Sec. Benson has worked tirelessly to ensure her office runs as efficiently as possible to uphold and protect the will of Michiganders. As governor, we are confident she will continue her strong track record of protecting our freedoms, and will work to ensure that all Michigan families have access to affordable housing and health care. We have been proud to support Sec. Benson in her previous elections and are honored to support her now.”

Jocelyn Benson is a longtime resident of Detroit, Michigan and currently serves as Michigan’s 43rd secretary of state. She graduated from Wellesley College with a degree in political science and earned a master’s degree in sociology from Oxford University. She also earned a law degree from Harvard University Law School. Benson was elected Michigan’s secretary of state in 2018, making her the first Democrat to hold the office since 1995. While in office, she has remained committed to ensuring secure and accessible elections and making the secretary of state office efficient and accessible for all Michiganders. 

EMILYs List has supported Benson in 2010, 2018, and 2022 in previous elections. 

EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, works to elect Democratic pro-choice women up and down the ballot and across the country with a goal of fighting for our rights and our communities. Over nearly 40 years, EMILYs List has raised nearly $950 million to help Democratic women win competitive elections by recruiting and training candidates, supporting and helping build strong campaigns, researching the issues that impact women and families, running one of the most impactful independent expenditure operations for Democrats, and turning out women voters to the polls. Since our founding in 1985, we have helped elect the country’s first woman as vice president, 192 women to the House, 29 to the Senate, 20 governors, and over 1,600 women to state and local office. More than 40% of the candidates EMILYs List has helped elect to Congress have been women of color. Visit www.emilyslist.org for more information.