[1][2] Born on December 9, 1949, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Fitzgerald graduated from Overbrook High School in 1967, and subsequently attended LaSalle University and Temple University.
She earned her Associate of Arts degree in marketing management from the Community College of Philadelphia in 1984.
Congressman Robert A. Brady from 1998 to 2002, she then worked as a legislative assistant to Pennsylvania State Representative Dwight Evans from 2002 to 2014.
[2] Appointed as leader of the 10th Ward Democratic Committee, she was subsequently elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and represented her constituents during the 2017, 2019 and 2021 terms.
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