Mary Lightbody (born July 17, 1952) is an American educator and politician who was the member of the

Ohio House of Representatives The Ohio House of Representatives is the lower house of the Ohio General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Ohio; the other house of the bicameral legislature being the Ohio Senate. The House of Representatives first met in ...

from the 4th district in Franklin County from 2019 until 2024. Lightbody was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education at the Ohio State University, Newark Campus and previously taught at Otterbein University.

Ohio House of Representatives

Election

Lightbody was elected in the

general election A general election is an electoral process to choose most or all members of a governing body at the same time. They are distinct from By-election, by-elections, which fill individual seats that have become vacant between general elections. Gener ...

on November 6, 2018, winning 55 percent of the vote over 45 percent of Republican candidate Tim Barhorst, flipping the seat from Republican control to Democratic control.

Committees

Lightbody served on the following committees: Agriculture and Rural Development, Commerce and Labor, and Higher Education.

Election history

References

Ohio State University faculty Democratic Party members of the Ohio House of Representatives 21st-century members of the Ohio General Assembly Living people 21st-century American women politicians Women state legislators in Ohio 1952 births Harvard College alumni Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology alumni Otterbein University faculty American women academics {{Ohio-politician-stub