Jen Mazzuckelli

Mazzuckelli describes growing up in a middle-class family of public servants; her mother was a teacher and her father retired from the Public Health Service. She graduated from Glen Este High School in Clermont County, Ohio, and attended Trinity College in Washington, D.C., before earning a bachelor's degree from Illinois College (1991).[1] In a WVXU candidate survey, she wrote that her degree was in English and creative writing and that she interned in the Pentagon's Office of Community Relations. She later earned a graduate degree from Miami University of Ohio (2005), a Master of Arts in Teaching in secondary education.[1][3]

Mazzuckelli worked in human resources, then became a licensed teacher and taught high school English until 2013. She wrote that she also ran for Clermont County commissioner in 2024.[1][3] She says her life changed in 2013 with a domestic-violence case against her husband and a multiple sclerosis diagnosis, after which her family fell to an "extremely low" income level, and she cited that experience as a reason for running.[1] She describes community service as a Girl Scout leader and assistant coach for Girls on the Run.[1] During the campaign, she described it as centered on congressional oversight of the executive branch and responsiveness to constituents, drawing on her experience with economic hardship.[1] She received 35.8% of the vote to David Taylor's 64.2%, according to unofficial results reported by NBC News.[2]