Katherine Clark | |
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.jpg) Official portrait, 2023 | |
| House Minority Whip | |
| Assumed office January 3, 2023 | |
| Leader | Hakeem Jeffries |
| Preceded by | Steve Scalise |
| Assistant Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | |
| In office January 3, 2021 – January 3, 2023 | |
| Leader | Nancy Pelosi |
| Preceded by | Ben Ray Luján |
| Succeeded by | Jim Clyburn (Assistant Democratic Leader) |
| Vice Chair of the House Democratic Caucus | |
| In office January 3, 2019 – January 3, 2021 | |
| Leader | Nancy Pelosi |
| Preceded by | Linda Sánchez |
| Succeeded by | Pete Aguilar |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 5th district | |
| Assumed office December 12, 2013 | |
| Preceded by | Ed Markey |
| Member of the Massachusetts Senate | |
| In office January 5, 2011 – December 10, 2013 | |
| Preceded by | Richard Tisei |
| Succeeded by | Jason Lewis |
| Constituency | Middlesex and Essex district (2011–2013) 5th Middlesex district (2013) |
| Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the 32nd Middlesex district | |
| In office March 13, 2008 – January 5, 2011 | |
| Preceded by | Mike Festa |
| Succeeded by | Paul Brodeur |
| Member of the Melrose School Board | |
| In office 2001–2007 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Katherine Marlea Clark July 17, 1963 New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse |
Rodney Dowell (m. 1992) |
| Children | 3 |
| Education | St. Lawrence University (BA) Cornell University (JD) Harvard University (MPA) |
| Website | House website Party website |
Katherine Marlea Clark (born July 17, 1963) is an American lawyer and politician who has served as House Minority Whip since 2023 and the U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 5th congressional district since 2013. She previously served as Assistant Speaker[a] from 2021 to 2023 and Vice Chair of the House Democratic Caucus from 2019 to 2021. Clark was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2008 to 2011 and the Massachusetts Senate from 2011 to 2013.
Born in Connecticut, Clark worked as an attorney in several states before moving to Massachusetts in 1995, where she worked in state government. She joined the Melrose School Committee in 2002, becoming committee chair in 2005. She was first elected to the state legislature in 2008, and contributed to legislation regarding criminal justice, education, and municipal pensions. She is in her sixth term in Congress, having won the 2013 special election for the U.S. House of Representatives to succeed Ed Markey in the 5th district, and sits on the House Appropriations Committee.
Clark's district includes many of Boston's northern and western satellite cities and suburbs, such as Medford, Framingham, Woburn, Waltham, and her home city of Revere.
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