Jeremy Moss
President pro tempore of the Michigan Senate
Incumbent
Assumed office January 11, 2023
Preceded by	Aric Nesbitt
Member of the Michigan Senate
Incumbent
Assumed office January 1, 2019
Preceded by	Vincent Gregory
Constituency	11th district (2019–2023) 7th district (2023–present)
Member of the Michigan House of Representatives from the 35th district
In office January 1, 2015 – January 1, 2019
Preceded by	Rudy Hobbs
Succeeded by	Kyra Harris Bolden
Personal details
Born	(1986-06-23) June 23, 1986 (age 37) Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Education	Michigan State University (BA)
Website	Campaign website

Jeremy Allen Moss (born June 23, 1986) is an American politician from Southfield, Michigan currently representing the 7th State Senate District, which includes all of Auburn Hills, Bloomfield Hills, Bloomfield Township, Lake Angelus, Lathrup Village, Pontiac, Southfield, and parts of Detroit, Southfield Township, and Waterford Township.^[1][2] A member of the Democratic Party, he is the first openly LGBT person elected to the Michigan Senate, as well as the first to serve as President Pro Tempore.[1] Moss previously served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2014 - 2018, and remains the youngest-ever member of the Southfield City Council.^[3][4]

Personal life

Moss was born on June 23, 1986, in Detroit and is a lifelong resident of Southfield, Michigan.^[3][5][4] He attended Hillel Day School and graduated from Wylie E. Groves High School in the Birmingham Public School District.^[6]

He graduated with high honors from Michigan State University with a bachelor's degree in journalism and an additional major in political science.^[7] While attending Michigan State, he participated in several student-led humanitarian aid missions in the US and around the globe, twice traveling to New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to assist with cleanup efforts and spending time abroad in Uruguay to build housing in among the most impoverished areas of South America.^[7] He graduated from the Michigan Political Leadership Program Fellowship^[3][6] and was also president of the university's Phi Sigma Pi.^[5]

Moss is currently a member organizations such as the Greater Southfield/Farmington chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Martin Luther King Task Force, and is a board member of Congregation Beth Ahm in Oakland County.^[3]

He also serves on the Michigan Democratic Party's State Central Committee, as a board member of the Southfield Lathrup Village Democratic Club, and has been a Southfield Democratic Precinct Delegate. He was an alternate delegate from Michigan to the 2012 Democratic National Convention. In 2011, he was selected Young Democrat of the Year by the Oakland County Democratic Party.^[5]

Moss is Jewish and openly gay.^{[6][8][9][10]}

Professional life

Moss worked in the offices of Mayor Brenda Lawrence and State Representative Paul Condino.^[4][11] He worked as District Director for State Representative Rudy Hobbs^[5][6] after serving as his campaign manager.^[11]

In November 2011, at age 25,^[11] he placed first among eight candidates to be elected to serve as the youngest-ever elected official in Southfield.^[3][5][6] He served as chairman of the council's Legislative and Urban Affairs Committee, and as a member of the Boards and Commission and Neighborhood Services committees. In 2013, Moss successfully advocated for the creation of a new Economic Development Committee.^[5][6]

He was elected to serve the 35th District in the Michigan House of Representatives in November 2014.^[12] He became the second openly gay member elected to the Michigan legislature.^[6]

In his first term in the Michigan House of Representatives, he served as minority vice chairman of the House Local Government Committee and sat on the House Commerce and Trade and House Regulatory Reform committees.^[3][13]

Moss was re-elected in 2016. He was selected by his colleagues to serve as the House Democratic Whip. In his second term, he served as minority vice chairman of the House Regulatory Reform Committee and sat on the House Elections and Ethics Committee, House Local Government Committee, and the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules.^[3]

In 2018, Moss was elected to represent the 11th Michigan Senate District and was the Assistant Democratic Leader. Moss started his second term in the Michigan Senate in 2023, representing district 7. He currently serves as President Pro Tempore of the Michigan Senate; Chair of the Elections and Ethics Committee; Chair of the Regulatory Affairs Committee; Vice Chair of the Finance, Insurance, and Consumer Protections Committee; and is a member on the Economic and Community Development, Government Operations, and Local Government committees.^[14]

Electoral history

Moss holds the distinction of having been the youngest-ever elected official on the Southfield City Council (2011)^[3][5][6] and has not let up on public service since. After City Council, he was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives, serving as the Democratic Caucus Whip, and then became the Assistant Democratic Leader in his first term in the Michigan Senate.

In 2014, he defeated Nicole Brown, Darryle Buchanan and Charles Roddis in the Democratic primary for the 35th District of the Michigan House of Representatives on August 5, 2014. He then went on to defeat Republican Party candidate Robert Brim in the general election on November 4, 2014.^[12][13] He defeated Brim in a rematch in 2016.

In 2018, Moss defeated Crystal Bailey, Vanessa Moss, and James Turner in the Democratic primary for the 11th State Senate district.^[15] He went on to defeat Republican Boris Tuman and Libertarian James Young in the general election.^[16]