Susan Wild

Susan Wild (née Ellis; born June 7, 1957) is an American lawyer and politician from the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

A Democrat, she served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district from 2018 to 2025.

She also lived in France, California, New Mexico, and Washington, D.C.[4] Wild volunteered on Jimmy Carter's 1976 presidential campaign.

She won a six-candidate Democratic Party primary election with 33% of the vote, narrowly defeating Northampton County district attorney John Morganelli, and faced Republican Lehigh County commissioner Marty Nothstein in the November 6 general election.

[14][15] On the same day, Wild also ran in a separate special election for the balance of Dent's term; he had resigned in May after announcing the previous fall that he would not run for reelection.

The former 15th had stretched from the Lehigh Valley into heavily Republican territory between Lebanon and Harrisburg, by way of a tendril in Berks County.

She was unopposed in the Democratic primary[20] and faced former Lehigh County commissioner Lisa Scheller[21] in the general election.

[27] As of November 2022, Wild had voted in line with President Joe Biden's stated position 100% of the time.

[31][32] Wild has been critical of Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro for holding views she characterized as "far-right", "misogynistic", "homophobic" and "anti-immigrant".

In March 2019, she and 29 other Democratic lawmakers wrote U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo a letter that read in part, "Since the election of far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro as president, we have been particularly alarmed by the threat Bolsonaro's agenda poses to the LGBTQ+ community and other minority communities, women, labor activists, and political dissidents in Brazil.

We are deeply concerned that, by targeting hard-won political and social rights, Bolsonaro is endangering Brazil's long-term democratic future.

[34][35] In February 2023, Wild signed a letter advocating for President Biden to give F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine.

[39][40] In 2019, Wild voted against allowing victims of crimes by illegal immigrants in sanctuary cities to report the incident to the Department of Homeland Security.

Wild speaking with press in Allentown, Pennsylvania
Wild (right) visiting Lehigh Heavy Forge with Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh