Shontel M. Brown
Democrat · OH-11 · U.S. House
Bio
Shontel Monique Brown is an American politician who has served as the U.S. representative for Ohio's 11th congressional district since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, Brown previously served as a member of the Cuyahoga County Council, representing the 9th district.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 4.8 years
- First took office
- 2021 (3 terms)
- Seniority
- 288 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 51
- Cleveland, OH · 216-535-1100
- Beachwood, OH · 216-522-4900
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $3k – $46k
- Liabilities
- $0 – $0
- Net worth
- $3k – $46k
- Since 2022
- −$11k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 4 assets reported
Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Shontel M. Brown's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Shontel M. Brown (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Brownsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Caucuses
- Congressional Progressive Caucusstrongly left · 93 members
- New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
- Congressional Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Committees
- House Committee on Agriculturecenter · 53 members
- House Committee on Oversight and Government Reformcenter · 47 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Brown's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
'Sadistic and Cruel': Democratic Lawmakers Rail Against $20 Million for ICE's Electric Shock GlovesDemocrats in both chambers of Congress this week have joined rights advocates in forcefully denouncing plans for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to spend up to $20 million on "gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks."The Department of Homeland …
Common Dreams · August 13, 2026
GOP lawmaker caves after backlash to horrifying allegations reaches fever pitchRep. Max Miller (R-OH) dropped a domestic violence case against his ex-wife amid growing backlash over allegations he scalded her with hot water and held a gun to her head.A Cuyahoga County judge formally dismissed the case Wednesday against Emily Moreno, dau…
Raw Story · July 30, 2026
'Hard to top this level of dystopia': Trump admin ripped for plan buried in Obamacare ruleAfter the Republican Party’s decision to terminate subsidies that had significantly reduced healthcare costs under the Affordable Care Act for 22 million people, the White House is considering a new way to—officials claim—“help” Americans who face massive med…
Raw Story · June 12, 2026
The FBI Just Raided a Pro-Democracy Group in an Act of “Intimidation”The FBI raided the offices of an Ohio pro-democracy organization in Cleveland Thursday and questioned employees across the state, asking questions about voter fraud.The Ohio Organizing Collaborative, which promotes voter registration and voting rights, was ta…
The New Republic · June 12, 2026
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