Maria Pappas
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Maria Pappas | |
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 Pappas in 2013 | |
| Treasurer of Cook County | |
| Assumed office December 1998 | |
| Preceded by | Edward J. Rosewell |
| Member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners from the 10th district | |
| In office December 1994 – December 1998 | |
| Preceded by | constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Mike Quigley |
| Member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners from Chicago | |
| In office December 1990 – December 1994 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | June 7, 1949 Warwood, West Virginia, U.S. |
| Party | Democratic |
| Spouse |
Peter Kamberos (m. 1991) |
| Education | West Liberty University (BA) West Virginia University (MA) Loyola University Chicago (PhD) Illinois Institute of Technology (JD) |
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Maria Pappas (born June 7, 1949) is an American attorney and politician who has served as the treasurer of Cook County, Illinois since 1998. Prior to that, she served two terms on the Cook County Board of Commissioners; first as one of ten members elected from Chicago and then, after the board moved to single-member constituencies, as the member from the 10th district.[1] She is currently running for mayor of Chicago in the 2027 election.
Pappas was born June 7, 1949, in Warwood, a neighborhood of Wheeling, West Virginia, to first generation Greek American parents.[2] She earned a bachelor's degree in sociology from West Liberty State College and a master's degree in counseling at West Virginia University. She then relocated to Chicago to work at the Adler Institute with Rudolf Dreikurs.[2] She earned her Ph.D. from Loyola University in 1976. While a doctoral student, she received a state grant to work with mothers at Altgeld Garden Homes.[3] She then taught at Governors State University until switching to the legal field; graduating from Chicago Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1982.[2][4]