Anne Northup

Anne Northup
Commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission
In office August 7, 2009 – July 23, 2013
President	Barack Obama
Succeeded by	Ann Marie Buerkle
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky's 3rd district
In office January 3, 1997 – January 3, 2007
Preceded by	Mike Ward
Succeeded by	John Yarmuth
Member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from the 32nd district
In office November 1987 – January 1, 1997
Preceded by	Fred Cowan
Succeeded by	Susan Johns
Personal details
Born	Anne Meagher (1948-01-22) January 22, 1948 (age 76) Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Woody Northup
Relations	Mary T. Meagher (sister)
Children	6
Education	St. Mary's College (BS)

Anne Meagher Northup (born January 22, 1948) is an American Republican politician and educator from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. From 1997 to 2007, she represented the Louisville-centered 3rd congressional district of Kentucky in the United States House of Representatives, where she served on the powerful House Appropriations Committee. She lost reelection to Democrat John Yarmuth in the 2006 election. She then ran for Governor of Kentucky, losing by 15 points to embattled governor Ernie Fletcher in the Republican primary election for the 2007 Kentucky gubernatorial election. Prior to her election to the United States House of Representatives, Northup had served in the Kentucky House of Representatives. Northup ran again for her old congressional seat in the 2008 election, losing again to Yarmuth.^[1]