Nerat
was the first female Democrat elected to the House of Representatives from
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, taking 56 percent of the vote in November 2008 to
represent the 108th House District. She was defeated by current
Representative Ed McBroom (R-Vulcan) in 2010.
One
of Representative Nerat’s bills became law during her brief tenure in the
Legislature, a measure requiring the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to
increase promotion of hunting on state land.