PA-07: Lisa Scheller (R)
The granddaughter of immigrants, Scheller is the CEO of Silberline Manufacturing Co. they founded. The company — which makes a key ingredient in paints and coatings that’s sent to 87 different countries — is the only woman-owned business of its type in the world.
Scheller says, “I have lived the American Dream, and I want to protect that American Dream for future generations. I’ve been all over the world and seen what doesn’t work and why our system of free enterprise is so important to protecting the American Dream.”
As a young adult, Scheller struggled with heroin addiction; after entering recovery at age 22, she got her life on track and never forgot the power of reaching out to help others. Today, Scheller has been clean and sober for 40 years and her non-profit, Hope & Coffee, is a popular coffee shop in her hometown of Tamaqua, Pennsylvania.
She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees and became a tireless advocate for education. In the early 2000s, Scheller created a scholarship for students in need through her local community college, and it’s become one of the largest privately endowed scholarships of its kind in the country.
Scheller is listed on the National Republican Congressional Committee’s Young Gun program. If she wins, Scheller will be the first Jewish Republican woman in Congress in 35 years and only the third in history.
The above information was sourced from the candidate’s website.
