Ellmers, Renee, 1964-

Renee Jacisin Ellmers (born February 9, 1964) is an American nurse, healthcare director, and politician. A member of the Republican Party, she served as the U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 2nd congressional district from 2011 to 2017.

Born Renee Jacisin in Ironwood, Michigan, her family moved to Madison Heights, Michigan when she was a child. After graduating from Madison High School, she was hired as a medical assistant, using her wages to pay tuition at nearby Oakland University. She graduated with a BS in nursing in 1990. She and her husband Brent Ellmers, whom she had met working at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan, moved to North Carolina in 1998. There, Renee Ellmers was clinical director of the Trinity Wound Care Center in Dunn. She made the jump from community activism into politics in response to the effort by Congress and the Barack Obama administration to overhaul the nation’s health insurance system in 2009 and 2010 with the Affordable Care Act. Ellmers easily won the Republican primary and narrowly bested seven-term Democratic incumbent Bob Etheridge.

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