Elizabeth Schneider (born 1962) is an American politician from

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. Schneider served as a Democratic

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from

's 32nd District, representing part of Penobscot County, including the population centres of Orono and Lincoln. She was first elected to the Maine State Senate in 2004 after serving from 1996 to 2004 in the town government of Orono.Senator Elizabeth Schneider
Maine.gov Unable to run for re-election in 2012 due to term-limits, Schneider was replaced in the State Senate by Democratic State Representative Emily Cain.

Personal

Schneider and her family moved from

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a year after her birth in 1963. Schneider's parents were active in the peace and equal rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s. She graduated from an all-girls high school in

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and met her husband while studying at the

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. The couple moved to Orono in 1987.

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