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Kathy Manning

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Kathy Manning
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from North Carolina's 6th district
In office
January 3, 2021 – January 3, 2025
Preceded byMark Walker
Succeeded byAddison McDowell
Personal details
Born (1956-12-03) December 3, 1956 (age 68)
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseRandall Kaplan
Children3
EducationHarvard University (BA)
University of Michigan (JD)
WebsiteHouse website
Manning's voice
Manning supporting the Speak Out Act
Recorded November 16, 2022

Kathy Ellen Manning (born December 3, 1956) is an American lawyer and politician who represented the North Carolina's 6th congressional district from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, her district was in the heart of the Piedmont Triad area, including Greensboro and High Point, as well as parts of Forsyth, Rockingham, and Caswell Counties.

In December 2023, Manning announced that she would not be running for reelection due to new "egregiously gerrymandered congressional districts" in North Carolina.[1]

Early life and career

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Manning was born to a Jewish family in Detroit, Michigan, on December 3, 1956.[2][3] Her father worked for the Ford Motor Company for 40 years. Manning attended Interlochen, the National Music Camp, in Northern Michigan, where she studied music and drama. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, where she founded Radcliffe Pitches, the first female a cappella group at Harvard.[4][5] She also attended the University of Michigan Law School, earning a Juris Doctor.[6]

After graduating from law school, Manning practiced law in Washington D.C. for five-and-a-half years before moving to Greensboro, her husband's hometown, in 1987. She continued to practice law in Greensboro for twenty years, becoming a partner at a major North Carolina law firm before starting her own immigration firm in 2002.

She was the first woman to serve as board chair of the Jewish Federations of North America,[7] from 2009 to 2012,[8] and served on the boards of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Jewish Agency for Israel. She also was the founding board chair of Prizmah: Center for Jewish Day Schools.[9]

Starting in 2012, she led the ten-year effort to build what would become the Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts, a state-of-the-art, 3,000-seat performing arts venue in downtown Greensboro.[10]

U.S. House of Representatives

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Manning greeting President Joe Biden in April 2022
Manning speaking at an event with Governor Roy Cooper and EPA Administrator Michael Regan

Elections

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2018

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See also: 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina § District 13

In 2018, Manning ran against Republican incumbent Ted Budd for the United States House of Representatives in North Carolina's 13th congressional district.[11] At the time, the district stretched from southwestern Greensboro to the northern exurbs of Charlotte. On paper, the district tilted Republican; Donald Trump had carried the district two years earlier with 53% of the vote. She lost to Budd, 52% to 46%.

2020

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See also: 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina § District 6

After a court-ordered redistricting in 2019, 6th District was reconfigured to include the Triad, with all of Guilford County, and part of Forsyth County, including most of Winston-Salem.[12] The previous 6th District, which included only parts of Greensboro, had been represented by Republican Mark Walker for three terms.

On December 2, 2019, hours before the new map was issued, Manning announced she would run in the 6th.[13] The new district was significantly more compact and Democratic than its predecessor. Had it existed in 2016, Hillary Clinton would have won it with over 59% of the vote[14]–a near-mirror image of Trump's 56% in the old 6th.[15]

With most observers believing the 6th was a likely Democratic pickup,[16] Walker announced he would not run for a fourth term.[17]

Manning won the Democratic primary, and in the general election, she defeated Republican nominee Lee Haywood with 62% of the vote. Upon her swearing-in on January 3, 2021,[18] she became the first woman to ever represent the 6th District,[19] the first Democrat to represent this district since 1985,[19] and the first Jewish person to represent North Carolina in Congress.[20]

Manning has stated health care is one of her driving issues, motivated by the "labyrinthine process of getting insurance" to cover her daughter's medication for a chronic illness.[21]

2022

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See also: 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina § District 6

On November 8, 2022 Manning won re-election to her house seat against Republican Christian Castelli by a vote of 139,553 (54%) to 116,635 (45%) [1].

After the 2020 census, the North Carolina General Assembly redrew the congressional maps for the 2022 election. Those maps were challenged in several lawsuits that made their way to the North Carolina Supreme Court.[22] In a 4-3 decision split down party lines, the North Carolina Supreme Court struck down the maps, finding that the districts drawn reflected extreme partisan gerrymandering in violation of the North Carolina state constitution, and ordered them to be redrawn. After rejecting the redrawn maps, the Court appointed a bipartisan panel of experts, called special masters, made up of two Republicans and one Democrat, to draw fair maps.[22]

The approved maps removed most of Winston-Salem, while keeping all of Guilford County, Greensboro, and High Point and expanding the 6th District to include Rockingham County and most of Caswell County.

Tenure

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Manning and other members of the US congressional delegation with Israeli president Isaac Herzog in Jerusalem, Israel, March 28, 2024

As of January 2024, Manning had voted with President Joe Biden's stated positions 84.9% of the time in the 118th Congress, according to an ABC News analysis.[23]

In the 117th Congress, Manning voted with President Joe Biden's stated positions 100% of the time, according to a FiveThirtyEight analysis.[24]

Manning was first sworn into Congress on January 3, 2021, during the height of the COVID pandemic. Three days later, Manning was one of the members trapped in the House Chamber gallery during the January 6 attack on the Capitol. She was among the last people to be rescued from the gallery and had to remain with other congressional members in a secure location for close to five hours before returning to the House Chamber to vote to certify the election of President Biden.[25]

Legislation

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Manning is the author of the Right to Contraception Act, legislation she introduced to protect the right of people to use and health care professionals to prescribe the full range of FDA-approved contraception.[26] She first introduced this legislation in the 117th Congress in response to Justice Clarence Thomas’s concurring opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the case that overturned the 50-year-old precedent of Roe v. Wade protecting abortion rights.[27]  On July 21, 2022, the Right to Contraception Act passed the House of Representatives in the 117th Congress by a vote of 228 – 195.[28] Manning re-introduced the Right to Contraception Act while in the minority in the 118th Congress, and on June 4, 2024, she filed[29] a discharge petition on the bill in an attempt to bring it to the House Floor for a vote.

In the 118th Congress, Manning introduced the Countering Antisemitism Act with Republican Chris Smith from New Jersey, bipartisan legislation to strengthen federal efforts to counter antisemitism.[30] A companion bill was introduced in the Senate by Senators Jacky Rosen from Nevada and James Lankford from Oklahoma. Manning called it the "most comprehensive bill"[31] on antisemitism, and it incorporated guidance outlined in the Biden administration's first ever U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism.

On September 9, 2024, the Securing Global Telecommunications Act, legislation introduced by Manning and Republican Congresswoman Young Kim from California passed the House of Representatives by voice vote. The pair had previously introduced this legislation in the 117th Congress, where it also passed the House. This bill requires the Department of State develop and submit to Congress a strategy to promote the use of secure telecommunication infrastructure in countries other than the United States.[32]

On November 20, 2024, the House of Representatives agreed to[33] Manning’s resolution condemning the rise of antisemitism around the world, encouraging an increase in international cooperation to counter antisemitism and welcoming the Global Guidelines for Countering Antisemitism.

A member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, Manning introduced legislation to expand access to mental health services in schools and to expand healthcare to address the high rate of maternal mortality.

Manning was one of the original co-sponsors of The Dignity Act, a bipartisan bill introduced at the beginning of the 118th Congress to enact comprehensive immigration reform, including measures to secure the border and expedite asylum determinations, create a pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients, and increase visas for legal immigration to enhance the workforce.[34]

Committee assignments

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Caucus memberships

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  • New Democrat Coalition[36] (Chair, Workforce Development Task Force, 118th Congress)[37]
  • Democratic Women's Caucus (Policy Co-Chair, 118th Congress)[38]
  • Pro-Choice Caucus
  • Equality Caucus[35]
  • Gun Violence Prevention Task Force
  • Black Maternal Health Caucus
  • Labor Caucus
  • Bipartisan Historically Black Colleges and Universities Caucus
  • Rare Disease Caucus[39]

In 2022, Manning took over as lead Democrat on the House Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Antisemitism, succeeding[40] Former Congressman Ted Deutch from Florida. As co-chair, Manning held meetings with White House officials, the U.S. Ambassador for Monitoring and Combating Antisemitism, Deborah Lipstadt, officials from European countries engaged in combatting antisemitism as well representatives from major Jewish organizations. Manning was outspoken following the October 7th, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, and hosted many meetings with families of hostages and members of Congress. In November 2024, it was announced that Congressman Dan Goldman from New York would take over following Manning’s departure from Congress.[41]

Personal life

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Manning and her husband, Randall Kaplan, have three children and three grandchildren.[42]

Electoral history

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North Carolina's 13th congressional district, 2018 Democratic primary results[43]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Kathy Manning 19,554 70.1
Democratic Adam Coker 8,324 29.9
Total votes 27,878 100.0
North Carolina's 13th congressional district, 2018[44]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Ted Budd (incumbent) 147,570 51.5
Democratic Kathy Manning 130,402 45.6
Libertarian Tom Bailey 5,513 1.9
Green Robert Corriher 2,831 1.0
Total votes 286,316 100.0
Republican hold
North Carolina's 6th congressional district, 2020 Democratic primary results[45]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Kathy Manning 56,986 48.3
Democratic Rhonda Foxx 23,506 19.9
Democratic Bruce Davis 17,731 15.0
Democratic Derwin Montgomery 14,705 12.5
Democratic Ed Hanes 5,067 4.3
Total votes 117,995 100.0
North Carolina's 6th congressional district, 2020[46]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Kathy Manning 253,531 62.3
Republican Lee Haywood 153,598 37.7
Total votes 407,129 100.0
Democratic gain from Republican
North Carolina's 6th congressional district, 2022[47]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Kathy Manning (incumbent) 139,553 53.9
Republican Christian Castelli 116,635 45.0
Libertarian Thomas Watercott 2,810 1.1
Total votes 256,950 100.0
Democratic hold

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Pollard, James (2023-12-07). "No reelection campaign for Democratic representative after North Carolina GOP redrew U.S. House map". AP News. Retrieved 2025-01-30.
  2. ^ Gangitano, Alex (November 30, 2020). "Rep.-elect Kathy Manning (D-N.C.-06)". The Hill. Retrieved January 21, 2021.
  3. ^ Murphy, Brian (October 18, 2018). "Challenger turns health care fight personal in her congressional bid in NC". The News & Observer. Retrieved October 30, 2020.
  4. ^ "Crimson on Capitol Hill: 117th". 10 December 2020.
  5. ^ "Alumnae".
  6. ^ "About". 3 January 2021.
  7. ^ Fisher, Alyssa (May 9, 2018). "Meet North Carolina Democrat Kathy Manning – The Forward". Forward.com. Retrieved October 26, 2018.
  8. ^ "Kathy Manning brought Jews together. Can she do the same for Congress? | The Jewish Federations of North America". jewishfederations.org. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
  9. ^ "From the Board: My Story, Our Vision". Prizmah: Center for Jewish Day Schools. 2017-01-03. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
  10. ^ "Greensboro Performing Arts Center History". Retrieved April 30, 2020.
  11. ^ taft.wireback@greensboro.com, Taft Wireback (2 December 2019). "Kathy Manning announces congressional candidacy as judges review redrawn district map". Greensboro News and Record.
  12. ^ "New congressional map".
  13. ^ Elise Manahan (December 2, 2019). "Kathy Manning announces congressional candidacy as judges review redrawn district map". News & Record.
  14. ^ Presidential results for reconfigured North Carolina districts via Daily Kos
  15. ^ Presidential results by congressional district for districts used in 2016, from Daily Kos
  16. ^ Gardner, Amy (November 15, 2019). "Democrats would likely gain two seats under new congressional map approved by North Carolina legislature". Retrieved December 5, 2020.
  17. ^ Murphy, Brian (December 16, 2019). "His House district was made a Democratic one. Here's what's next for Mark Walker". The Herald-Sun. Durham, North Carolina. Retrieved December 5, 2020.
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  20. ^ "List of Jewish members of the United States Congress", Wikipedia, 2025-01-30, retrieved 2025-01-30
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  22. ^ a b Anderson, Bryan (2022-02-23). "NC Supreme Court OK's new voting maps for 2022 election". WRAL.com. Retrieved 2025-01-30.
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  25. ^ Gardener, Maddie (2021-01-07). "NC Representative, Kathy Manning, recalls crouching down on House gallery floor while rioters tried to break in". WFMY News 2. Retrieved 2025-01-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  26. ^ Rep. Manning, Kathy E. [D-NC-6 (2022-07-21). "H.R.8373 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Right to Contraception Act". www.congress.gov. Retrieved 2025-01-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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  30. ^ Rep. Manning, Kathy E. [D-NC-6 (2024-04-10). "Text - H.R.7921 - 118th Congress (2023-2024): Countering Antisemitism Act". www.congress.gov. Retrieved 2025-01-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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  33. ^ Rep. Manning, Kathy E. [D-NC-6 (2024-11-20). "Actions - H.Res.1449 - 118th Congress (2023-2024): Condemning the global rise of antisemitism and calling upon countries and international bodies to counter antisemitism". www.congress.gov. Retrieved 2025-01-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  34. ^ Rep. Salazar, Maria Elvira [R-FL-27 (2024-12-17). "H.R.3599 - 118th Congress (2023-2024): DIGNIDAD (Dignity) Act of 2023". www.congress.gov. Retrieved 2025-01-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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  37. ^ "Workforce Development | New Democrat Coalition". newdemocratcoalition.house.gov. Retrieved 2025-01-30.
  38. ^ "Democratic Women's Caucus Policy Co-Chairs Unveil Executive Action Agenda for the Biden Administration | Democratic Women's Caucus". democraticwomenscaucus.house.gov. 2024-03-18. Retrieved 2025-01-30.
  39. ^ "Rare Disease Congressional Caucus". Every Life Foundation for Rare Diseases. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
  40. ^ Rod, Marc (2022-09-30). "Kathy Manning to take over House antisemitism task force". Jewish Insider. Retrieved 2025-01-30.
  41. ^ Rod, Marc (2024-11-19). "Dan Goldman to take over House antisemitism task force chair from Kathy Manning". Jewish Insider. Retrieved 2025-01-30.
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