Meet the New Member: Representative Tonya Myers Phillips

May 22, 2025

by Liz Gullett

As MLC’s Communications and Social Media Manager, Liz Gullett keeps clients informed and up-to-date on the goings on in Lansing and the Capitol.

Representative Tonya Myers Phillips (D-Detroit) is serving her first term in the Michigan House of Representatives.

Biography

She brings over 20 years of experience as an attorney and community leader. Beginning her career at the Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice, she worked on environmental justice and enforcement provisions of the Detroit Living Wage Ordinance. Moving into private practice, Representative Phillips represented indigent criminal defendants. Additionally, she worked as a housing attorney with Michigan Legal Services.

Representative Phillips is an adjunct professor at Wayne State University Law School and previously served on Detroit’s Charter Revision Commission.

She received her bachelor’s and law degrees from the University of Michigan.

District

She represents the 7th House District, which includes portions of Detroit, Hamtramck, and Highland Park.

Committees

    • Energy
    • Natural Resources and Tourism

Related posts:

  1. Spotlight on Senator Sean McCann
  2. Spotlight on Representative Pauline Wendzel
  3. Spotlight on Representative Jaime Greene
  4. Spotlight on Representative Matt Koleszar

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