Christina Hines

In Christina Hines's family, her father, brother, husband, oldest son and her husband's father are all named David.¹ She and her husband are raising three children in Macomb County, where she grew up attending Warren Woods public schools.² She says the decision to run involved family discussions about their children, finances and giving up her prosecutor's paycheck.¹

Hines attended the University of Michigan and earned her law degree at Wayne State.² She began at the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office, spent several years in its special victims unit and later became first assistant in Washtenaw County's appeals division.³ Her earlier bid for elected office was an unsuccessful 2024 campaign for Macomb County prosecutor.⁴

Her name appears on a 2021 Michigan Supreme Court amicus brief arguing that the state's civil rights law prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation.⁵ She also helped create Washtenaw County's restorative justice program, writing about that work in the Michigan Bar Journal.³ The program offered eligible cases a voluntary process involving both the person harmed and the person responsible, rather than automatically pursuing conventional prosecution.⁶

Her congressional platform promises lower household costs, stronger schools and a ban on congressional stock trading.² She also supports reproductive rights.⁴ She faces Republican Mike Bouchard in the November 3 election for the open seat John James is leaving to run for governor, covering southern Macomb County and part of Oakland County.⁷