Capri Cafaro

Cafaro was born and raised in Youngstown, Ohio. Her father is shopping mall developer John Cafaro. She is of Italian descent. She attended Youngstown private schools Kennedy School and then Ursuline High School at age 12. with a BA in American Studies and from Georgetown University with a MALS in International Studies. ==Career==

Cafaro served on the Trumbull County Senior Services Advisory Council and was asState policy liaison for Ohio with the National Patient Advocate Foundation. Cafaro again ran for the Democratic nomination in the open 13th Congressional District in 2006, placing second in a nine-candidate primary, behind future Congresswoman Betty Sutton. That seat was vacated by U.S. Representative Sherrod Brown, a Democrat who replaced Republican Senator Mike DeWine in the U.S. Senate after defeating him on November 7, 2006. As of 2017, Cafaro was the executive-in-residence at American University's School of Public Affairs and gave commentary on political events as a contributor on Fox News. ==Ohio Senate==

In 2007, Cafaro was appointed to the 32nd District of the Ohio Senate to replace Marc Dann after Dann won the Ohio attorney general's race on November 7, 2006. One year after becoming a member of the Ohio General Assembly, Cafaro secured a leadership position as the assistant minority whip for the Senate Democrats. In 2008, Cafaro was elected to her first full term after running unopposed in the general election. Soon after, she was elected by her colleagues as minority leader of the 128th General Assembly. She again served as minority leader in the 129th General Assembly. Cafaro served as leader for three years until she stepped down and was replaced in 2012 as Ohio Senate minority leader by Senator Eric Kearney. She won a second full term to her Senate seat in the 2012 general election, defeating Republican Nancy McArthur 67% to 33%. Cafaro played a prominent role in the Medicaid expansion efforts in Ohio, and has sought to codify the expansion permanently in Ohio law. She has offered legislation numerous times to do so. Cafaro did not seek reelection to the Ohio State Senate in 2016 due to term limits. ==Election history==