Mayor of Salt Lake City īiskupski was elected to the office of Salt Lake City Mayor on November 17, 2015, defeating two-term incumbent Ralph Becker with 51.55% of the vote, receiving 17,290 votes to Becker's 15,840. In 2011, Biskupski helped found Utah's Real Women Run initiative which has hosted numerous events since then to encourage female participation in civic leadership and political office. She then went to work as an administrator for the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office on January 31, 2015. Utah Governor Gary Herbert appointed Brian Doughty in 2011 to replace Utah Representative Jackie Biskupski, D-Salt Lake, when she resigned from the Utah House of Representatives. In 2000, Biskupski unsuccessfully combated Utah's ban on adoption by same-sex parents and Utah's sodomy law in response to a 1998 bill sponsored by Utah Representative Nora B. She was re-elected 6 times after that, serving in the legislature for 13 years, before retiring in 2011. When elected in 1998 to the Utah House of Representatives she became Utah's first openly gay person elected to a state office.
In 1997, Biskupski was elected to the Executive Committee for the Salt Lake County Democratic party as well as the Board of Directors for the YWCA of Salt Lake City. Biskupski decided to get involved in politics after a 1995 controversy erupted at East High School (Salt Lake City), when the Board of the Salt Lake City School District and the Utah State Legislature tried to eliminate a gay/straight student alliance club.
She currently lives in the Sugar House neighborhood of Salt Lake City.īiskupski holds a Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice from Arizona State University.Īfter graduating from college, Biskupski opened her own private-investigation firm, and later went to work for the auto-insurance industry. On August 14, 2016, she married longtime partner Betty Iverson, who also has a son (named Jack). In 2009, Biskupski adopted a son named Archie. She is also a former member of the Utah House of Representatives, representing the 30th District in Salt Lake County from 1999 to 2011. Upon taking office, Biskupski became Salt Lake City's 35th mayor, the city's first openly gay mayor, and the second female mayor (after Deedee Corradini). Jackie Biskupski (born January 11, 1966) is an American Democratic politician, who served as the 35th Mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah.
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