Barb Byrum
| Barbara Anne Byrum | |
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| Ingham County Clerk | |
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Assumed office January 1, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Mike Bryanton |
| Member of the Michigan House of Representatives from the 67th district |
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In office January 1, 2007 – December 31, 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Dianne Byrum |
| Succeeded by | Tom Cochran |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
November 10, 1977 St. Louis, Missouri |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Brad Delaney |
| Children | 2 |
| Residence | Onondaga Township, Michigan |
| Alma mater | Michigan State University |
| Occupation | Hardware store owner |
Barbara Anne "Barb" Byrum (born November 10, 1977) is a Democratic politician from the State of Michigan. Byrum currently serves as the Ingham County Clerk. Prior to her election to the position of Clerk, Byrum represented the 67th District in the Michigan House of Representatives. She succeeded her mother, House Minority Leader Dianne Byrum. She owns Byrum Hardware in Charlotte, Michigan and lives in Onondaga with her husband Brad Delaney and their two children.
Byrum grew up in Onondaga, Michigan, a small rural town in southwestern Ingham County. She is the daughter of Jim Byrum, a former Lansing Community College trustee, and Diane Byrum, a former State Representative. Byrum is a graduate of Leslie High School. She attended Lansing Community College from 1994-1997 before attending Michigan State University. Byrum earned a bachelor of science degree in agribusiness management in 1999. After working in agribusiness for a few years, she returned to MSU College of Law and graduated with her juris doctor in 2004.
Byrum served as the Representative for the 67th House District in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2007 to 2012. During her first term, Byrum was Chair of the Intergovernmental, Urban and Regional Affairs Committee and a vice-chair of the House Committee on Agriculture. During the 94th Legislature, she was also on the Commerce, Education and Health Policy committees and was caucus vice-chair. She was Chair of the House Committee on Insurance. During her last term in the Michigan House of Representatives Byrum was the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Redistricting and Elections.
Byrum is responsible for introducing the bill that later became Public Act 218 of 2008 which allows small distilleries to market and sell their distilled grain-based spirits onsite. Byrum worked closely with Kris Berglund, a Distinguished Professor of forestry and chemical engineering at Michigan State University.
On June 14, 2012, during a contentious debate over a controversial anti-abortion bill, Byrum and her colleague, Representative Lisa Brown, found themselves banned from speaking on the House floor for saying "vasectomy" and "vagina," respectively. Byrum tried to introduce an amendment to the proposed bill that would ban men having vasectomies unless the procedure was needed to save their lives – a key clause of the anti-abortion bill. She was ruled out of order after protesting that she had not been allowed to speak on her proposal. Both Byrum and Brown were censured by House leadership and forbidden to speak on the floor.
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