Michelle Madoff
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Michelle Madoff served as a City of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh is the second-largest city in the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it is the 22nd-largest urban area in the United States...

 Councilwoman between 1978 and 1993. Born in Canada, Madoff moved to the United States in 1952 and to Pittsburgh in 1961. Madoff was unsuccessful in runs for Pittsburgh City Council in 1973 and Allegheny County Commissioner in 1975. She was first elected in 1978 to fill the unexpired term of Richard Caliguiri
Richard Caliguiri
Richard S. Caliguiri was an American politician who served as the mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1977 until his death in 1988....

. Caliguiri was serving as President of Pittsburgh City Council and became mayor when Peter Flaherty
Peter F. Flaherty
Peter Francis "Pete" Flaherty was an American politician from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.He served as Assistant District Attorney of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania from 1957 to 1964; a City of Pittsburgh Councilman 1966 to 1970; Democratic mayor of Pittsburgh from 1970 to 1977; United States Deputy...

 was appointed Deputy Attorney General of the United States in the Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...

 Presidential Administration. When the Pittsburgh City Council switched from one being elected at-large to a by-district format she was the first person elected to represent Council District 2. She was defeated after coming in third in the 1993 Democratic primary.

Before entering politics Madoff was a community and environmental activist. In 1969 Madoff co-founded and was the first president of the Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP) in Pittsburgh, a local group with a long history of environmental activism.

Madoff is currently a resident of Surprise, Arizona
Surprise, Arizona
Surprise is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, USA. The population was 30,848 at the 2000 census; however, rapid growth has boosted the city's population to 117,517 at the 2010 census, an increase of 281%...

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