Marina Dimitrijevic was elected 4th District Supervisor in 2004 and was re-elected to the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors in 2008. Supervisor Dimitrijevic has the distinction of being the youngest woman ever to be elected to the Milwaukee County Board, at the age of 22.
Since being elected to office, Supervisor Dimitrijevic has fought energetically on legislative issues that help the community she was born and raised in and now represents. Her legislative agenda has been focused on supporting the needs of working families, adopting higher energy and environmental standards in Milwaukee County, and passing a socially and fiscally responsible budget each year. She has had legislative victories in the areas of responsible economic development, rehabilitative incarceration programs, and environmental protection. Supervisor Dimitrijevic is currently working on civil rights issues, which affect our immigrant and LGBT communities.
Supervisor Dimitrijevic, the daughter of Serbian immigrants, is a life long resident of Milwaukee's South Side. She is an honors graduate of Marquette University where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Spanish.
Fluent in Spanish, Supervisor Dimitrijevic attended the University of Madrid in Spain as a foreign exchange student. As a participant in Marquette University's Les Aspin Center for Government in Washington, DC, she worked in the office of Congressman Jerry Kleczka, a well-respected leader who served Milwaukee's South Side. Later, she traveled to Kenya working with newly democratically elected officials. Prior to her election, Supervisor Dimitrijevic worked as a paralegal at Friebert, Finerty and St. John and as a Public Relations Intern for the Milwaukee Common Council.
Supervisor Dimitrijevic is known for her commitment to community involvement. She is an active member in over 30 civic organizations in her district and has been appointed to serve on the City of Milwaukee's Housing Trust Fund Task Force. The second Wednesday of each month Supervisor Dimitrijevic attends a town hall meeting at the OASIS Center, Organization for Active Seniors in Society, located at 2414 W. Mitchell Street. These meetings begin at noon and are designed to enable senior citizens' voices to be heard.
Supervisor Dimitrijevic's Milwaukee County Board responsibilities include serving as Vice-Chairperson of the Health and Human Needs Committee and membership on the Intergovernmental Relations Committee and the Personnel Committee. She is also the Supervisory Delegate on the Milwaukee County Commission on Aging.
Supervisor Dimitrijevic lives in the heart of Bay View, on Milwaukee's South Side.
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