Full article at the Washington Post:
Governor Granholm’s Rise to Politics
A Career That Began With a Reganesque Start
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, May 20, 2009; 3:43 PM
Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm is a darling of moderate Democratic politics who would become the first justice in nearly four decades without experience as a judge–and the first since the Great Depression born outside the United States.
Granholm, 50, is in her second term of a governorship that has been defined largely by the persistent economic troubles of her state, the heart of the U.S. automobile industry with unemployment that remains highest in the country.
Since she was elected in 2002, Granholm has focused on trying to lure other employers to Michigan, strengthening education, revising taxes, and ideas such as a “cool cities” initiative to deter talented young residents from moving away.
Her path to political power runs through Hollywood, Harvard Law School and a series of public-sector legal jobs of relatively low visibility until she catapulted to her first elected office as Michigan’s attorney general.
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