Chelsa L. Wagner (born July 24, 1977) is an American politician currently serving as a Judge in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Her father Pete was Democratic Chairman of the city's 19th Ward for 30 years, and her uncle Jack Wagner served as the state's Auditor General.
[5] In 2009, Wagner became the first Democratic legislator in Pennsylvania history to give birth while in office, and returned to Harrisburg with her 10-day-old son, Thaddeus, to attend to a months-long state budget impasse.
[11] Wagner has modernized her office's auditing functions to meet the highest professional standards and implemented technological improvements.
As Controller, she has led efforts to bring transparency and accountability to municipal authorities,[12] tax-exempt "purely public charities",[13] and water quality.
[15] Wagner helped resurrect the Pittsburgh Marathon from a five-year hiatus[16] to become a world-class event that also promotes health in local schools and communities.
Diven, who was elected as a Democrat in 2004, had held the seat for three terms but changed his political party affiliation to Republican a year later and got on the ballot in 2006 through a write-in effort.
[22] Wagner ran for Allegheny County Controller in 2011 and faced Valerie McDonald Roberts and George Matta in the Democratic primary on May 17, 2011.
[34] Wagner and Mosley have characterized the charges against them as retaliatory and part of a cover-up by the Westin Book Cadillac Hotel and Detroit police.
[37] On December 20, 2019, prosecutors in Wayne County said they'd retry Wagner on the felony count of assaulting, resisting and obstructing a police officer.