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Martha Kehres Roby (/ ˈ r oʊ b i / ROH-bee; née Dubina; born July 26, 1976) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. representative for Alabama's 2nd congressional district from 2011 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, she defeated the incumbent Democratic U.S. Representative Bobby Bright in 2010.
Dubina is married. His daughter, Martha Roby, became an attorney and a politician, first serving on the city council. [7] She entered politics and was elected in 2010 to the United States House of Representatives from Alabama (AL-2) defeating incumbent congressman Bobby Bright. She has been re-elected to successive terms. [citation needed]
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U.S. Rep. Martha Roby won Alabama's Republican runoff, fighting through lingering fallout from her years-old criticism of then-candidate Donald Trump in a midterm contest that hinged on loyalty to ...
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Before entering politics, she was a securities lawyer for Davis Polk & Wardwell and a public finance lawyer for Maynard, Cooper & Gale, where she was the first Black woman to make partner. She is the first African-American woman elected to Congress from Alabama and, along with Republican Martha Roby , [ 3 ] was one of the first women elected to ...
Feb. 8—With less than a month left to make their final appeals to local voters, Cullman County candidates campaigning in contested GOP primary races will take two opportunities to do just that ...
Roby was endorsed by Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich, and won the primary. [5] [6] Roby took the general election unseating Bright. Bright later ran for this seat as a Republican in 2018 and lost the primary to Roby, who won a 5th term in the general election. AL - District 2 from OurCampaigns.com; Campaign contributions from OpenSecrets