Chairman Laura Campbell and the Hamilton County Republican Party paid tribute to Congresswoman Susan Brooks on Sunday, Oct. 25, honoring her for her service to Hamilton County, District 5 and the country.
Brooks was presented the Hamilton County Republican Party’s “Chairman’s Club Award” by Chairman and Carmel City Council President Laura Campbell, HCRP Treasurer and Diversity Council President Raju Chinthala, Speaker of the Indiana House Todd Huston, Fishers City Council President and Hamilton County Republican Women’s Club President Cecilia Coble, State Senator and Congressional candidate Victoria Spartz and former State Senator and former State GOP Chairman Murray Clark.
The Hamilton County Republican Party honored Congresswoman Susan W. Brooks on Sunday with the Hamilton County Republican Party’s “Chairman’s Club Award” by Party Chairwoman and Carmel City Council President Laura Campbell. (Reporter photo by Denise Moe)
Brooks is a Republican and the U.S. Representative for Indiana’s 5th Congressional District of Indiana, which spans eight urban, suburban and rural counties in Central Indiana, including the north side of Indianapolis and all of Hamilton County. She was elected in 2012.
Brooks has used her background as a Deputy Mayor of Indianapolis, a U.S. Attorney and a community college administrator to improve education, jobs, health and homeland security. She currently serves on the House Energy and Commerce Committee and is a member of the Health, the Communications and Technology, and the Oversight and Investigations subcommittees. Through her membership on the Energy and Commerce Committee, she has worked on mental health, substance abuse, biodefense, public safety, telecommunications issues and more. She also serves on the House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress, where she is focused on restoring confidence in Congress and making it easier for Americans to participate in the business of the People’s House.
Brooks’ strong background in both the public and private sectors includes experience as a proven difference-maker in areas such as harassment and discrimination, public safety, homeland security, counter-terrorism and economic development. In the 115th Congress, she served as the Chairwoman of the House Committee on Ethics, where she worked with her colleagues to restore confidence in Congress. She also previously served on the Select Committee on the Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi. In the 113th Congress, she was a member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and the House Homeland Security Committee where she served as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Communications.
In June 2019, Brooks announced her retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives at the end of the 116th Congress, her fourth term in Congress. Never desiring to be a lifelong politician, she will now focus on her family, which includes aging parents, young adult children whom she would like to visit more often, and her husband David for this next chapter in her life.
Past recipients of the Hamilton County Republican Party’s Chairman’s Club award have been State Senator Victoria Spartz, Sheryl and Bill Clifford, and Denise Moe.