Rita Fleming is an American politician. She served as a Democratic member for the 71st district of the

Indiana House of Representatives The Indiana House of Representatives is the lower house of the Indiana General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Indiana. The House is composed of 100 members representing an equal number of constituent districts. House mem ...

. Fleming studied at

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as an undergraduate, and as a postgraduate at

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and the

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. Fleming has worked as a

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, and obstretician and gynecologist. In 2018, she was elected for the 71st district of the

, succeeding Steven R. Stemler, and assumed office on November 7, 2018. She was re-elected in

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and

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

. Fleming resigned from the Indiana House on May 13, 2024.

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