Mari Cordes is an American nurse and politician who served in the

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from 2019 until 2025. Cordes worked as a

nurse Nursing is a health care profession that "integrates the art and science of caring and focuses on the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and human functioning; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; and alle ...

at the

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. In June 2025, she announced she would resign her seat and move to

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, due to increased

homophobia in the United States Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) rights in the United States are at risk of erosion under the Second presidency of Donald Trump, with transgender rights being most at risk. While lesbian, gay and bisexual rights remain ad ...

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cuts, and staffing cuts for medical professionals.

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Living people University of Michigan alumni Vermont College of Fine Arts alumni 21st-century American women politicians Members of the Vermont House of Representatives Women state legislators in Vermont Vermont Progressive Party politicians Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century members of the Vermont General Assembly LGBTQ state legislators in Vermont American emigrants to Canada American nurses {{Vermont-politician-stub