 After winning the Democratic primary, Kelly won the 2013 special election to succeed Jesse Jackson Jr. in the U.S. House of Representatives.The daughter of a grocer, Robin Lynne Kelly was born in Harlem on April 30, 1956.Hoping to become a child psychologist, she attended Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, and is a member of Sigma Gamma Rho sorority through the Zeta Phi Chapter.