Debra DeLee was Chair of the Democratic National Committee

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 from 1994 to 1995, and was the second woman to hold the post. She is currently President and CEO of Americans for Peace Now

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 (APN), a national Zionist organization dedicated to enhancing Israel’s security through peace and to supporting the Israeli Peace Now movement. She was born in Chicago

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, Illinois

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, is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She was a superdelegate

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 for the 2008 Democratic National Convention

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 and endorsed United States Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton

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 of New York

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 in the primaries.