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United States attorney; congresswoman from Indiana's 5th district
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Susan Wiant Brooks was born on August 25, 1960, and raised in Fort Wayne — her own biographies record the city as where she is from, and she graduated from Homestead High School in 1978. The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress gives her birthplace as Auburn, Indiana; the difference between her biographies and the congressional record is flagged in the note that accompanies this section, and her settled tie — raised in Fort Wayne — is the one stated here. She took her bachelor's degree at Miami University and her law degree at Indiana University's McKinney School of Law, practiced criminal defense from 1985 to 1997, and served as deputy mayor of Indianapolis in 1998–99. From 2001 to 2007 she was United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana; she then became senior vice president and general counsel of Ivy Tech Community College. Elected in 2012, she represented Indiana's 5th district, in central Indiana, in the U.S. House from 2013 to 2021 and chaired the House Ethics Committee.
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Sources: Indiana Governor's Public Health Commission (biography: "originally from Fort Wayne"); Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (birthplace as Auburn); her official curriculum vitae.