Betty Koed

Betty Koed
3rd Historian of the United States Senate
In office
June 1, 2015 – October 2023
Preceded byDonald A. Ritchie
Succeeded byKatherine A. Scott
Personal details
EducationSanta Barbara City College
University of California, Santa Barbara (BA, MA, PhD)

Betty K. Koed is an American historian who was the third Historian of the United States Senate and the first woman to hold that position.[1] Upon her retirement, the US Senate designated her as Historian Emerita of the United States Senate.[2]

Koed graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1983 and received a bachelor's in English. She went on to earn her master's and PhD in history, also from University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1991 and 1999 respectively, after beginning her career as a technical writer.[3][4][5] While pursuing her PhD, Koed studied with Otis L. Graham Jr. and Robert Kelley at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[6]

She later went on to teach American History at the University of California, Santa Barbara before joining the Senate Historical Office in 1998.[3]

Koed won the Distinguished Alumni Award from UC Santa Barbara in 2016.[7]

In 2022, Koed authored the book Scenes: People, places, and events that shaped the United States Senate, which "presents a collection of 150 scenes from Senate history."[8]

  1. ^ "The Senate Historical Office". www.senate.gov. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  2. ^ "Text of S.Res. 420: A resolution designating Betty K. Koed as Historian Emerita of the United States Senate. (Resolution Agreed to by Senate version)". GovTrack.us. Retrieved 2024-01-30.
  3. ^ a b "Betty K. Koed | AHA". www.historians.org. Retrieved 2017-03-18.
  4. ^ "Alumni Spotlight: Betty Koed". ucsbalum.com. Archived from the original on 2017-03-19. Retrieved 2017-03-18.
  5. ^ "Portraits of Success" (PDF). graddiv.ucsb.edu. pp. 13–16. Retrieved May 4, 2022.
  6. ^ "Betty K. Koed | AHA". www.historians.org. Retrieved 2019-08-12.
  7. ^ "Past Award Recipients | UC Santa Barbara Alumni". www.alumni.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-24.
  8. ^ Koed, Betty K; et al. (Prepared under the direction Sonceria Ann Berry) (2022). Scenes : people, places, and events that shaped the United States Senate. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Publishing Office. ISBN 9780160959370.