Marilyn Marler is an American politician. She is a

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representing the 90th district in the

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Political career

Marler was a member of the

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Missoula, Montana Missoula ( ; fla, label= Séliš, Nłʔay, lit=Place of the Small Bull Trout, script=Latn; kut, Tuhuⱡnana, script=Latn) is a city in the U.S. state of Montana; it is the county seat of Missoula County. It is located along the Clark Fork Ri ...

from 2006 to 2018. In 2018,

Ellie Hill Ellie Boldman (née Hill Smith; born June 30, 1975) is an American attorney and politician serving as a Democratic member of the Montana Senate, representing District 45. Previously, she served in the Montana House of Representatives, representin ...

, former District 90 representative in the Montana House of Representatives, was unable to run for reelection due to term limits, and Marler ran for the open seat. She defeated

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Nick Knowles with 67.8% of the vote. As of July 2020, Marler sits on the following committees: * Natural Resources * Taxation * Local Government * Legislative Administration

Electoral record

Personal life

Marler holds a

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from

University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The inst ...

and a

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from the

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, both in Biology. She has been a Natural Areas Specialist at the

since 1998.

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Politicians from Missoula, Montana University of California, Davis alumni University of Montana alumni Montana city council members Democratic Party members of the Montana House of Representatives Women state legislators in Montana 21st-century American politicians 21st-century American women politicians {{Montana-politician-stub