Stephanie Murphy

Stephanie Murphy born Đặng Thị Ngọc Dung September 16 1978 is an American politician who served as the US representative for Floridas 7th congressional district from 2017 to 2023 A member of the Democratic Party she defeated incumbent Republican John Mica in 2016 Her district included much of downtown and northern Orlando as well as all of Winter Park Maitland Sanford and Altamonte Springs Murphy was born in 1978 in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam before leaving the country with her family in 1979 After growing up in Northern Virginia Murphy attended the College of William Mary and Georgetown University Before becoming a member of Congress she worked as a national security specialist at the United States Department of Defense an executive at Sungate Capital and a business professor at Rollins College Murphy became the first VietnameseAmerican woman first VietnameseAmerican Democrat and the second VietnameseAmerican overall after South Vietnamborn Republican Joseph Cao of Louisiana to be elected to Congress On December 20 2021 Murphy announced that she would not run for reelection to a fourth term in 2022