Mikie Sherrill, the first Democrat to represent her district in more than three decades, came to Washington with an agenda focused on some of the Northeast Corridor’s highest-profile issues, such as how to ease the daily commutes of hundreds of thousands of people into Manhattan. Sherrill attended the U.S. Naval Academy and became a H3 Sea King helicopter pilot. She stayed in the Navy until 2003, retiring as a lieutenant commander. After departing from the Navy and earning her law degree, Sherrill worked for the law firm Kirkland & Ellis in New York and later joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Jersey as an outreach and re-entry coordinator before becoming an assistant U.S. attorney from 2015 through the spring of 2016.

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