Donna Christian-Christensen
| Donna Christian-Christensen | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the Virgin Islands's At-large district |
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In office January 3, 1997 – January 3, 2015 Delegate |
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| Preceded by | Victor Frazer |
| Succeeded by | Stacey Plaskett |
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Donna Marie Christian September 19, 1945 Teaneck, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Chris Christensen (1998–present) |
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St. Mary's College, Indiana George Washington University |
| Religion | Moravian |
Donna Marie Christian-Christensen, formerly Donna Christian-Green (born September 19, 1945), is a U.S. Virgin Islander physician and politician. She served as the non-voting Delegate from the United States Virgin Islands to the United States House of Representatives (map) from 1997 until 2015.
Born Donna Christian in Teaneck, New Jersey, the daughter of a Virgin Islands Federal District Court judge, Almeric Christian. She received her Bachelor of Science from St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana in 1966. Christensen then attended the George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C., where she received an M.D. in 1970. She interned at San Francisco's Pacific Medical Center from 1970 to 1971 and performed her residency in family medicine at Howard University Medical Center from 1973 to 1974.
Donna Christian-Christensen worked as a physician, first in the emergency room and later in the maternity ward. She then served as medical director for the St. Croix Hospital in St. Croix, Virgin Islands. She was the Commissioner of Health for the Virgin Islands in 1993 and 1994 and also ran a private medical practice until 1996. Christian was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions rom 1994 through 2012 elections. She has also previously served on the Status Commission and the Board of Education for the USVI.
Donna Christian-Christensen ran unsuccessfully for the position of USVI delegate in 1994, losing in the primary to former judge Eileen Petersen. She won a three-way race beating Victor Frazer, an Independent. That race also included future Governor Kenneth Mapp, who would defeat Christensen in 2014 during the Governor race. However, she was elected as a Democrat to the House in a 1996 runoff with Frazer and served from January 3, 1997, to January 3, 2015.
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