Gabrielle LeDoux

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Gabrielle LeDoux is an American politician and a member of the Republican Party of Alaska. She lives in Anchorage, Alaska and was born March 24, 1948. LeDoux is a former maritime attorney and businesswoman with offices in Anchorage and Kodiak, Alaska. [1]

Political career

LeDoux served as Mayor of the Kodiak Island Borough March 2001 through October 2004. LeDoux was then elected to the Alaska House of Representatives in 2005. She served two terms in the Alaska State Legislature, January 2004 through January 2007 and was a recipient of the Toll Fellowship in 2006. While in the legislature LeDoux served as co-chair of both the Fisheries and the Community and Regional Affairs Committees. She was also a member of the Labor and Commerce, and Resources committees.[2] She was best known for her passage of the "Safe Haven" Bill which allows parents to surrender newborns without prosecution. http://gov.state.ak.us/archive.php?id=878&type=1

In October 2007, LeDoux announced her candidacy for Alaska’s lone seat in the United States House of Representatives challenging 18-term Congressman Don Young and Lt. Governor Sean Parnell. LeDoux was dubbed a spoiler and placed a distant third in the primary, garnering a less than 10% of the vote.[3] The only part of the state she carried was her former legislative district, by plurality.

LeDoux moved to east Anchorage from Kodiak Island and is in an uncontested primary for a state house district in 2012. [4]

Education

LeDoux, an attorney by training, owns the Law office of Gabrielle LeDoux. She is a graduate of the University of California Berkeley (B.A. 1970) and University of California, Berkeley School of Law (J.D. 1973). She also attended the University of Southern California (1966–1968)

Family

LeDoux's husband (Kurt) and youngest son (Daniel) died in a car accident in 1992. She has two children.

Community service

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