Katherine Clark

Katherine Clark (2013)

Katherine M. Clark (born July 17, 1963 in New Haven , Connecticut ) is an American politician . She has represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives since 2013 .

Career

Katherine Clark attended the public schools in her home country and then studied at St. Lawrence University . After graduating from Cornell Law School with a law degree and admission to the bar, she began practicing the profession in Connecticut. She also studied at the Harvard University belonging Kennedy School of Government and 1983 at a university in Nagoya ( Japan ). She later practiced as a lawyer in Chicago for some time . She then moved to Colorado , where she worked for a federal judge and then for the state's district attorneys' association. Between 1991 and 1993 she was a prosecutor in the Colorado Attorney General's office .

She has been based in Massachusetts since 1995, where she initially worked as a consultant for the State Office of Child Care Services . Politically, she joined the Democratic Party . In 2001 she became a member of the Melrose City School Board , which is where she moved that year. In 2005 she became chairman of this body, to which she was a member until 2007. In 2004 she failed her candidacy for the Massachusetts Senate . From 2008 to 2010 she was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives ; between 2010 and 2013 she was a member of the State Senate. She was a member of several committees in both chambers.

After the resignation of MP Ed Markey , who moved to the US Senate , Katherine Clark was elected as his successor to Congress in the necessary by-election in the fifth constituency of Massachusetts . She prevailed against the Republican Frank Addivinola with 66:32 percent of the vote and took up her new mandate on December 10, 2013. After two re-elections so far in 2014 and 2016, she can continue to exercise her office today. Your new legislative period runs until January 3, 2019 with the option of a further candidacy in 2018. Clark is or was a member of the Committee on Natural Resources in the Committee on Education and the Workforce ) and in the Committee on Science, Space and Technology . She also sits or sat on three sub-committees.

She has three sons with her husband, a lawyer.

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• Re-election 2016 at Ballotpedia

Web links

• Katherine Clark in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Web presence at the congress