Susan Ruiz is an American politician, who was elected to the
Kansas House of Representatives
The Kansas House of Representatives is the lower house of the legislature of the U.S. state of Kansas. Composed of 125 state representatives from districts with roughly equal populations of at least 19,000, its members are responsible for craftin ...
in the 2018 elections. She represents the 23rd House District as a member of the
Democratic Party.
Openly
lesbian
A lesbian is a homosexual woman or girl. The word is also used for women in relation to their sexual identity or sexual behavior, regardless of sexual orientation, or as an adjective to characterize or associate nouns with female homosexu ...
, she was elected alongside
Brandon Woodard as the state's first-ever
LGBT
LGBTQ people are individuals who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning. Many variants of the initialism are used; LGBTQIA+ people incorporates intersex, asexual, aromantic, agender, and other individuals. The gro ...
state legislators.
2019-2020 Kansas House of Representatives Committee Assignments
*Social Services Budget
*Veterans and Military
*Children and Seniors
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Living people
Democratic Party members of the Kansas House of Representatives
LGBTQ state legislators in Kansas
Women state legislators in Kansas
American lesbian politicians
LGBTQ Hispanic and Latino American people
Hispanic and Latino American state legislators in Kansas
People from Shawnee, Kansas
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women politicians
21st-century members of the Kansas Legislature
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