This post was written by Hatchet reporter Ava Gondeck.

GW School of Business, MBA, 1987
Running as a challenger in Michigan’s 7th District

Alumna Gretchen Driskell lost to incumbent Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., in a race to represent a Michigan district in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Driskell earned 38 percent of the vote while Walberg garnered 56 percent with 87 percent reporting, according to Politico’s election results.

Driskell, who is from Saline, Mich., was elected as the city’s first female mayor in 1999. After 14 years and three and a half terms as mayor, she was elected as a Michigan state representative.

She said she would create jobs, support small businesses, maintain social security and Medicare funding and improve government transparency as a member of Congress, according to Driskell’s campaign website.

Driskell focused on women’s and children’s rights and bringing internet access to rural areas of Michigan during her time as mayor, she said in an interview last week. As mayor, Saline became a top 100 small city in America three times, according to her campaign’s website.