Wenda Sheard
Wenda Sheard (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Ohio House of Representatives to represent District 94. She lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Sheard completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Wenda Sheard was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She graduated from Shaker Heights High School. She earned a bachelor's degree from Cleveland State University, a law degree from the Cleveland Marshall College of Law in 1979, and a Ph.D. from the University of North Texas in 2004. Her career experience includes working as an attorney at law, mediator, teacher, and researcher.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Ohio House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Ohio House of Representatives District 94
Kevin Ritter defeated Wenda Sheard and Andrea Neutzling in the general election for Ohio House of Representatives District 94 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Kevin Ritter (R)  | 69.4 | 37,516 |
 | Wenda Sheard (D) | 30.6 | 16,568 | |
 | Andrea Neutzling (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 10 | |
| Total votes: 54,094 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 94
Wenda Sheard advanced from the Democratic primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 94 on March 19, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Wenda Sheard | 100.0 | 4,009 |
| Total votes: 4,009 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 94
Kevin Ritter defeated Shannon Walker in the Republican primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 94 on March 19, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kevin Ritter | 62.8 | 9,683 |
 | Shannon Walker | 37.2 | 5,743 | |
| Total votes: 15,426 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Sheard in this election.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Wenda Sheard completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Sheard's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- I’m running for State Representative because our current legislature has lost the ability to focus on the difficulties facing Ohioans in their homes, schools, and jobs. The August and November 2023 elections prove that point. In our district, we have hungry families, underfunded schools, a lack of affordable and reliable internet and phone service, an inadequate supplies of affordable housing, and a persistent drug addiction problem. We have injection wells accepting radioactive fracking waste from out-of-state, which waste pollutes our wells. Along with the rest of the world, we have the threat of climate change.
- On the economic front, we have big corporations with wages set so low that families must rely on the government for food assistance and healthcare. We have unions that the Ohio legislature attempts to weaken, most recently with Senate Bill 83. The latest available figures show that Athens County and Meigs County are ranked 83rd and 84th in Ohio in terms of per capita income among Ohio’s 88 counties. Washington County ranks 40th among Ohio counties, but the per capita income in Ohio as a whole isn’t pretty—1969 was the last year that the per capita income in Ohio was above the national average.
- We must receive our fair share of state and federal funding, especially in the following critical areas: (1) Infrastructure: roads and bridges, water and sewer, broadband and phone service. (2) Healthcare: attracting more doctors, better access to specialists, and support for rural clinics. (3) Education: fair and equitable funding from the state to the children in our district. We need an education funding system in which a child will receive the same public educational opportunities regardless of where the child lives in Ohio.
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 24, 2024
