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Susan Wild
Susan Wild (née Ellis; born June 7, 1957) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the U.S representative for Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district from 2018 to 2025. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district encompasses the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania, and includes Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton, and Bangor. Wild was narrowly defeated by Republican Ryan Mackenzie in 2024.
Wild spent the last two months of 2018 as the member for Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district after Charlie Dent, former U.S. representative for the district, resigned in 2018. She co-chaired the New Democrat Coalition Climate Change Task Force and was vice chair of both the Congressional Labor and Working Families Caucus and the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations. She was the first woman to represent the Lehigh Valley in Congress.
Wild was born to a Jewish family on June 7, 1957 in West Germany, the daughter of Norman Leith, a member of the U.S. Air Force, and Susan Stimus Ellis, a journalist. Wild was born on Wiesbaden Air Force Base in Hesse, West Germany, where her father was then stationed. She also lived in France, California, New Mexico, and Washington, D.C.
In 1976, Wild volunteered to work for Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign. She attended American University, where she graduated in 1978. She earned her Juris Doctor from George Washington University Law School in 1982, where she studied under John Banzhaf.
In 1999, Wild became a partner at the law firm Gross McGinley.
In 2013, Wild ran unsuccessfully for county commissioner in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. In 2015, she was appointed solicitor of Allentown, Pennsylvania, the first woman to hold the position.
On December 31, 2017, Wild resigned as City Solicitor to campaign to succeed retiring U.S. representative Charlie Dent, a Republican, in the U.S. House of Representatives in November 2018 in Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district, which had been represented by a Republican for seven terms. She won the six-candidate Democratic Party primary with 33% of the vote, narrowly defeating Northampton County district attorney John Morganelli. In the 2018 general election, she defeated Republican Lehigh County county commissioner Marty Nothstein, winning 54.5% of the vote to Nothstein's 43.5%.
On the same day, Wild also ran in a separate special election for the balance of the term of Dent, who resigned in May 2018 after announcing he would not run for reelection, winning the 15th congressional district's special election with 130,353 votes to Nothstein's 129,593.
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Susan Wild
Susan Wild (née Ellis; born June 7, 1957) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the U.S representative for Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district from 2018 to 2025. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district encompasses the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania, and includes Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton, and Bangor. Wild was narrowly defeated by Republican Ryan Mackenzie in 2024.
Wild spent the last two months of 2018 as the member for Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district after Charlie Dent, former U.S. representative for the district, resigned in 2018. She co-chaired the New Democrat Coalition Climate Change Task Force and was vice chair of both the Congressional Labor and Working Families Caucus and the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations. She was the first woman to represent the Lehigh Valley in Congress.
Wild was born to a Jewish family on June 7, 1957 in West Germany, the daughter of Norman Leith, a member of the U.S. Air Force, and Susan Stimus Ellis, a journalist. Wild was born on Wiesbaden Air Force Base in Hesse, West Germany, where her father was then stationed. She also lived in France, California, New Mexico, and Washington, D.C.
In 1976, Wild volunteered to work for Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign. She attended American University, where she graduated in 1978. She earned her Juris Doctor from George Washington University Law School in 1982, where she studied under John Banzhaf.
In 1999, Wild became a partner at the law firm Gross McGinley.
In 2013, Wild ran unsuccessfully for county commissioner in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. In 2015, she was appointed solicitor of Allentown, Pennsylvania, the first woman to hold the position.
On December 31, 2017, Wild resigned as City Solicitor to campaign to succeed retiring U.S. representative Charlie Dent, a Republican, in the U.S. House of Representatives in November 2018 in Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district, which had been represented by a Republican for seven terms. She won the six-candidate Democratic Party primary with 33% of the vote, narrowly defeating Northampton County district attorney John Morganelli. In the 2018 general election, she defeated Republican Lehigh County county commissioner Marty Nothstein, winning 54.5% of the vote to Nothstein's 43.5%.
On the same day, Wild also ran in a separate special election for the balance of the term of Dent, who resigned in May 2018 after announcing he would not run for reelection, winning the 15th congressional district's special election with 130,353 votes to Nothstein's 129,593.