Bennett's Widow to Fill Final Three Weeks of Current Term
Scott and Stacy Bennett and their children after Scott Bennett was sworn into the Senate in 2015. Sen. Bennett died December 9. Stacy Bennett will fill the remaining three weeks of her husband’s term, but won’t seek the full two year appointment.
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Sen. Scott Bennett’s widow, Stacy, will finish the final three weeks of his current term in the Senate.
Champaign County Democratic Chairman Mike Ingram told The Illinoize Wednesday night he asked Stacy Bennett to finish her late husband’s term, which runs through January 11, and she accepted.
Stacy Bennett
Stacy Bennett will not seek the appointment to the two year term that begins at noon January 11, Ingram says
According to her LinkedIn profile, Stacy Bennett is a researcher and professor in the University of Illinois Office of Community College Research and Leadership. She has a Ph.D. in Higher Education Policy from the U of I and a Masters in Public Policy from the University of Chicago. A native of Nebraska, she graduated from Kansas State University in 2000.
The couple met as interns in the White House in 1999 and were married in 2002.
Ingram, who has enough of the weighted vote between Champaign and Vermilion counties to appoint Stacy Bennett himself, says she will be sworn in as early as today.
