
Professor Benson is also the founder and executive director of the Michigan Center for Election Law and Administration. She is the author of State Secretaries of State: Guardians of the Democratic Process (Ashgate Publishing, 2010). In 2010, she waged an unsuccessful election campaign to become secretary of state in Michigan.
A graduate of Wellesley College in Massachusetts, she earned a master’s degree at Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar. She later graduated from Harvard Law School.


