Judy Biggert
| Judy Biggert | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois's 13th district |
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In office January 3, 1999 – January 3, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Harris Fawell |
| Succeeded by | Rodney Davis |
| Member of the Illinois House of Representatives from the 81st district |
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In office January 1993 – January 1999 |
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| Preceded by | Thomas McCracken |
| Succeeded by | Patti Bellock |
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Judith Gail Borg August 15, 1937 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Rody Biggert |
| Children | Courtney Alison Rody Adrienne |
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Stanford University Northwestern University |
| Religion | Episcopalianism |
Judith Borg "Judy" Biggert (born August 15, 1937) is the former U.S. Representative for Illinois's 13th congressional district, serving from 1999 to 2013. She is a member of the Republican Party.
Biggert was defeated in her 2012 re-election bid by former US Congressman Bill Foster. Due to redistricting, she ran in the reconfigured 11th congressional district.
Biggert was born Judith Gail Borg in Chicago on August 15, 1937, the second of four children of Alvin Andrew Borg and Marjorie Virginia (Mailler) Borg. Her father Alvin A. Borg worked for the Chicago-based Walgreen Co., the largest drugstore chain in the United States, for 41 years from 1928 to 1969, and served as its president from 1963 to 1969, succeeding Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. and succeeded by Charles R. Walgreen III. Her paternal grandparents immigrated from Finland and her maternal family is of English descent.
She grew up in Wilmette, Illinois, a North Shore Chicago suburb, and graduated from New Trier High School in 1955, then went to Stanford University, where she received a B.A. in international relations in 1959, then worked for a year in a women's apparel store. She then attended Northwestern University School of Law where she was an editor of the Northwestern University Law Review from 1961 to 1963, earned a J.D. in 1963, then clerked for federal judge Luther Merritt Swygert of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 1963 to 1964.
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