Susan Glick is an American lawyer and politician from the state of

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. A Republican, she has been a member of the

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since 2010. She was LaGrange County Prosecuting Attorney from 1983 to 1990.

Education

Glick is a graduate of

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Legal career

Glick served as LaGrange County Prosecuting Attorney from 1983 to 1990. Before that she worked for Governor

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. She practiced law for 30 years prior to her tenure as a state senator.

Senate

Glick has represented the 13th district in the state senate since 2010. She was sworn into the state senate on December 16, 2010, Randall Shepard presided over the ceremony. She was selected as a replacement for Senator

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, who was elected to Congress. The district includes parts of Kosciusko,

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and DeKalb counties. In 2022, Glick authored a bill to impose a near-total ban on

abortion in Indiana , abortion is generally illegal in Indiana. It is only legal in cases involving fatal fetal abnormalities, to preserve the life and physical health of the mother, and in cases of rape or incest up to 10 weeks of pregnancy. Previously abortion ...

. The bill passed on the Republican-controlled Senate on a 26-20 vote in July 2022, one month after the

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overturned ''

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'' and decided that there was no federal constitutional right to abortion.Arleigh Rogers & Rick Callagan
Indiana Senate narrowly passes near-total abortion ban
Associated Press (July 30, 2022).

Personal

Glick is a

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and serves on her local library board.

References

External links

''official Indiana State Legislature site'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Glick, Sue Republican Party Indiana state senators 21st-century members of the Indiana General Assembly Women state legislators in Indiana Living people 21st-century American women politicians Year of birth missing (living people) Indiana University Bloomington alumni People from LaGrange County, Indiana