Marsha Coats
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| Marsha Coats | |
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| Basic facts | |
| Organization: | Republican Party of Indiana |
| Role: | National Committeewoman |
| Location: | Indiana |
| Affiliation: | Republican |
| Education: | •Wheaton College (B.A., education, c.1964) •Johns Hopkins (M.A., clinical community counseling, 1997)[1][2] |
| Website: | Official website |
Marsha Coats is the national committeewoman of the Republican Party of Indiana.[2] She is the wife of U.S. Senator Dan Coats (R-Ind.).
Coats was an RNC delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Indiana. All 57 delegates from Indiana were bound by state party rules to support Donald Trump at the convention.[3] As of July 13, 2016, Trump had approximately 1,542 delegates. The winner of the Republican nomination needed the support of 1,237 delegates. Trump formally won the nomination on July 19, 2016.
Career
Teaching and counseling
Marsha Coats began her career as a teacher in Indianapolis, Indiana, in the late 1960s. By 1972, her husband, Dan Coats—not yet in politics—had been transferred to Fort Wayne, Indiana. In Ft. Wayne, Marsha Coats taught sixth, seventh and eighth grade at a public school.[1][2] When the family moved to Virginia, she taught middle school math for a private school.[1] In the 1990s, while still in Virginia, Coats went to Johns Hopkins and earned her master's in clinical community counseling and eventually set up her own practice.[1][2]
Under the George W. Bush administration, Dan Coats was made U.S. Ambassador to Germany, where the family remained until 2005. Upon returning, Marsha Coats became a counselor at a private practice and also helped the U.S. Senate Chaplin. She also served on the board of the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services of Northern Virginia.[1][2]
Recognition for public service
Coats has received recognition for her work in the public sector. She received the U.S. Army Commanders’ Award for Public Service for her work with U.S. soldiers and their families while she was in Germany. In Germany, Coats had help to establish the Mission Germany’s Public Diplomacy Program and the American Embassy’s Eastern Outreach Program for which she received the U.S. State Department Certificate of Appreciation for Outstanding Public Diplomacy. She also received the Maggie Sloan Crawford Award by Olivet Nazarene University in 2007.[2]
Republican state party
In 2013, Indiana Governor Mike Pence (R) recommended Coats as the Republican Party of Indiana national committeewoman and was, subsequently, elected in July 2013.[4][2]
2016 Republican National Convention
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
Coats was an RNC delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Indiana.
Delegate rules
In Indiana, district-level delegates were selected by congressional district committees, while at-large delegates were selected by the state committee. 2016 Indiana GOP bylaws required Indiana delegates to vote at the national convention for the candidate to whom they were allocated through the first round of voting, unless that candidate was not on the nominating ballot.
Indiana primary results
- See also: Presidential election in Indiana, 2016
| Indiana Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
| Jeb Bush | 0.6% | 6,508 | 0 | |
| Ben Carson | 0.8% | 8,914 | 0 | |
| Chris Christie | 0.2% | 1,738 | 0 | |
| Ted Cruz | 36.6% | 406,783 | 0 | |
| Carly Fiorina | 0.1% | 1,494 | 0 | |
| John Kasich | 7.6% | 84,111 | 0 | |
| Rand Paul | 0.4% | 4,306 | 0 | |
| Marco Rubio | 0.5% | 5,175 | 0 | |
 Donald Trump |
53.3% | 591,514 | 57 | |
| Totals | 1,110,543 | 57 | ||
| Source: Indiana Secretary of State and The New York Times | ||||
99 percent of precincts reporting.
Delegate allocation
Indiana had 57 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 27 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's nine congressional districts) pledged to adhere to the results of the presidential preference primary in their respective congressional districts. Indiana's pledged Republican delegates were allocated on a winner-take-all basis; the candidate who received the greatest number of votes in a given district won all of that district's delegates.[5][6]
Of the remaining 30 delegates, 27 served at large. These delegates were allocated on a winner-take-all basis; the candidate who won the greatest share of the statewide vote in the primary was allocated all of the at-large delegates. In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as bound delegates to the Republican National Convention. The RNC delegates were required to pledge their support to the winner of the state's primary.[5][6]
Recent news
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See also
- Indiana
- Republican Party of Indiana
- Republican National Committee
- Dan Coats
- George W. Bush
- Republican National Convention, 2016
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Northwest Indiana Times, "A NEW LEAF: Marsha Coats' Real Life in Public Service," October 13, 2013
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 GOP, "Marsha Coats," accessed April 20, 2016
- ↑ Indianapolis Star, "Indiana GOP names delegates to Republican National Convention," April 14, 2016
- ↑ Indiana Public Media, "Governor Recommends Sen. Coats’ Wife For GOP Leadership Role," July 17, 2013
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
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