Omar, Ilhan

Spouse: Married (when first elected)
Children: Three children
Family Members Who Have Served in the Minnesota Legislature:

She is the first Somali-American, Muslim woman in the nation to hold a state legislative office (2016 Campaign Website).

She is the "first Somali-American lawmaker in the United States." (NPR, November 10, 2016)

She is one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congresss. (CNBC, November 7, 2018)

She said in her victory speech that she is "the first woman of color to represent our state in Congress. The first woman to wear a hijab to represent Minnesota ... The first refugee ever elected to Congress. And one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress." (NPR, November 7, 2018)

She was born in Somalia and lived with family friends and then in a refugee camp in Kenya before immigrating to the U.S. when she was 12 years old (City Pages, 10/26/2016).

She is the youngest of seven children and when she came to the United States in 1995, she spoke only Somali. (NPR, November 10, 2016)

She ran for the 5th Congressional District in the 2018 election after Keith Ellison withdrew from that race to run for Attorney General in Minnesota.

Religion provided by her 2016 campaign website.

Her birth year is correct. It is incorrectly reported as 1981 in other sources. As of May 24, 2019, Rep. Omar's congressional staff are working with Wikipedia and the U.S. House to correct her birth year in those sources.