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Miriam Hellreich
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| Miriam Hellreich | |
| Basic facts | |
| Organization: | Republican Party of Hawaii |
| Role: | National committeewoman |
| Location: | Hawaii |
| Education: | University of Alabama |
| Website: | Official website |
Miriam Hellreich is the national committeewoman for the Republican Party of Hawaii and the vice chair of the Western Region of the Republican National Committee. She is a practicing speech-language pathologist in Kailua, Hawaii.[1][2]
Career
Miriam Hellreich earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in speech-language pathology from the University of Alabama. She is the president of Speech and Language Pathology Associates, a private speech-language pathology practice in Kailua, Hawaii.[3][4][5]
Hellreich previously served on the board of governors for the East-West Center, a Honolulu-based nonprofit organization that aims to foster international relations between the United States, Asia, and Pacific nations. Hellreich also worked to promote democracy internationally by working as a trainer for the International Republican Institute in Turkey.[6][7]
Political activity
Miriam Hellreich has held leadership positions with the Republican Party of Hawaii and the Republican National Committee. She has supported a number of Republican presidential candidates in Hawaii, including serving as either Hawaii co-chair or Hawaii finance committee co-chair during the presidential campaigns of former President Ronald Reagan (R), former President George H.W. Bush (R), and former President George W. Bush (R).[3][4]
Hellreich served as the finance director for former Governor of Hawaii Linda Lingle (R) during her campaigns for governor of Hawaii and the U.S. Senate. She also worked as the finance director for former Republican Hawaii gubernatorial nominee Duke Aiona.[3][4]
Hellreich won election to the Republican National Committee (RNC) in 1992 and has served as the national committeewoman from Hawaii since 2001. She won re-election to a four-year term as the party's national committeewoman in May 2016. Hellreich previously served as the chair of the RNC's Western States Leadership Conference, as the Western Region's representative to the RNC executive committee, and as a member of the RNC's site selection committee, platform committee, and rules committee. She serves as the vice chair of the RNC's Western Region and as the chair of the capital campaign of the Republican Party of Hawaii.[4]
2016 Republican National Convention
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
Hellreich was an RNC delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Hawaii.[8] In Hawaii’s Republican caucus on March 8, 2016, Donald Trump won 11 delegates, Ted Cruz won seven, and Marco Rubio won one. Ballotpedia was not able to identify which candidate Hellreich was bound by state party rules to support at the national convention. If you have information on how Hawaii’s Republican delegates were allocated, please email editor@ballotpedia.org.[9]
RNC Rules Committee
- See also: RNC Rules Committee, 2016
Hellreich was a member of the RNC Rules Committee, a 112-member body responsible for crafting the official rules of the Republican Party, including the rules that governed the 2016 Republican National Convention.[10]
Appointment process
The convention Rules Committee in 2016 consisted of one male and one female delegate from each state and territorial delegation. The Rules of the Republican Party required each delegation to elect from its own membership representatives to serve on the Rules Committee.
Delegate rules
Hawaii GOP bylaws in 2016 required presidential candidates to form a Hawaii Leadership Committee that was responsible for selecting Hawaii Republican Party members to fill any national delegates won by the candidate in the caucus contests. Delegates from Hawaii were to remain bound to their candidate through the first round of voting at the convention, unless their candidate "withdrew" prior to the convention.
Hawaii caucus results
- See also: Presidential election in Hawaii, 2016
| Hawaii Republican Caucus, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
 Donald Trump |
43.4% | 6,805 | 11 | |
| Ted Cruz | 32.3% | 5,063 | 7 | |
| Marco Rubio | 13.2% | 2,068 | 1 | |
| John Kasich | 10% | 1,566 | 0 | |
| Ben Carson | 0.9% | 146 | 0 | |
| Jeb Bush | 0.2% | 24 | 0 | |
| Totals | 15,672 | 19 | ||
| Source: CNN and The New York Times | ||||
Delegate allocation
Hawaii had 19 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, six were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's two congressional districts). District-level delegates were allocated proportionally in accordance with the caucus results in a given congressional district.[11][12]
Of the remaining 13 delegates, 10 served at large. At-large delegates were allocated proportionally in accordance with the statewide caucus results. In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as bound delegates to the Republican National Convention.[11][12]
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Footnotes
- ↑ Republican National Committee, "Hawaii Leadership," accessed April 1, 2016
- ↑ Republican Party of Hawaii, "Hawaii Republican Party Leadership," accessed April 20, 2016
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 LinkedIn, "Miriam Hellreich," accessed April 19, 2016
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Republican National Committee, "Miriam Hellreich," accessed April 19, 2016
- ↑ Hawai'i Speech-Language-Hearing Association, "Service providers," accessed April 19, 2016
- ↑ East-West Center, "Mission and organization," accessed April 19, 2016
- ↑ International Republican Institute, "Who we are," accessed April 20, 2016
- ↑ Hawaii Free Press, "Hawaii GOP Announces Delegation to Republican National Convention," June 30, 2016
- ↑ To build our list of the state and territorial delegations to the 2016 Republican National Convention, Ballotpedia relied primarily upon official lists provided by state and territorial Republican parties, email exchanges and phone interviews with state party officials, official lists provided by state governments, and, in some cases, unofficial lists compiled by local media outlets. When possible, we included what type of delegate the delegate is (at-large, district-level, or RNC) and which candidate they were bound by state and national party bylaws to support at the convention. For most delegations, Ballotpedia was able to track down all of this information. For delegations where we were not able to track down this information or were only able to track down partial lists, we included this note. If you have additional information on this state's delegation, please email editor@ballotpedia.org.
- ↑ Ballotpedia's list of 2016 RNC Rules Committee members is based on an official list from the Republican National Committee obtained by Ballotpedia on June 24, 2016
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
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