Mallory McMorrow

Mallory Ann McMorrow (born August 23, 1986) is an American politician who has served in the Michigan Senate since January 2019. She became senate majority whip on January 1, 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she represents the 8th district; before that, she represented 13th district from 2019 to 2023, the district included Berkley, Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Clawson, Rochester Hills, Royal Oak, and Troy, Michigan. Prior to running for the Michigan Senate, McMorrow worked in industrial design. Early life and education McMorrow was born in the Whitehouse section of Readington Township, New Jersey, and graduated from Hunterdon Central Regional High School. She was raised Catholic and her family was active in their local parish. McMorrow sang in her church choir, and her mother taught Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (CCD) classes. However, her parents divorced, and their priest called her mother "disappointing" and said she was "not living up to the Church's expectations" as he had not seen her in church. McMorrow said that on Sundays, she and her mother volunteered at local soup kitchens outside of the diocese. McMorrow received a Bachelor of Arts in industrial design from the University of Notre Dame in 2008. During her junior year at Notre Dame, she won a public design contest for the 2018 version of the Mazda3. She also finished in second in a contest to design the logo for the Indiana Toll Road. After graduation, McMorrow worked for design firms in New York and Los Angeles, as well as for Mattel and Gawker, before moving to Michigan. Political career McMorrow participated in the 2017 Women's March in Detroit, and began writing postcards to Betsy DeVos, the U.S. Secretary of Education, challenging positions of the Trump administration. She applied to Emerge America's Michigan chapter, which provides training to political candidates.