Lauren Plawecki (born 1994) is an American politician from Michigan who represented the 11th District—which comprises the cities of Garden City and Inkster, and parts of Dearborn Heights, Livonia and Westland—in the Michigan House of Representatives after being elected in November 2016 in a special election to fill the remaining two months of the term left vacant by the death of her mother, Julie Plawecki.
Plawecki is a graduate of Divine Child High School in Dearborn, Michigan and the University of Michigan with a degree in Art History and has worked or interned at museums all over the world, including the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, the Guggenheim Museum in New York City and the Norton Simon Museum in California.
Inkster City Councilman Jewell Jones, who at 20-years-old became the youngest ever Inkster City Councilman and is an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan–Dearborn, was chosen and will run unopposed in the Democratic primary on August 2.
Since she was the lone Democrat to file for the seat (along with only one Republican filing for the seat, Robert Pope, an 85-year-old retired sheriff's deputy who was also running for the full two-year term against Jones), a primary was not necessary.
[8] Lauren won the special election, taking 65 percent of the vote[9] and was sworn-in as a state representative on November 29, 2016.