Elizabeth Warren
U.S. Senator from Massachusetts
Elizabeth Ann Herring Warren was born in June 1949 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She attended George Washington University and later earned a B.S. in speech pathology and audiology from the University of Houston. He earned a Juris Doctor from Rutgers Law School.
In her pre-political career, she taught children with disabilities at a public school, entered the private practice of law, and donated legal services. She became a lecturer at Rutgers University, Newark School of Law, moving to the University of Houston Law Center where she became an associate dean and obtained tenure. She taught at the University of Texas School of Law, becoming a full professor, and taught at other law schools as well. She became a full professor at the University of Pennsylvania, later teaching for a year at Harvard Law School.
Warren was appointed by President Barack Obama to be special advisor for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where she spent a year. A year later, she ran for and was elected a United States Senator from Massachusetts, assuming office in January 2013.
Warren is married to Bruce Mann. She is divorced from James Robert Warren, with whom she had two children. Warren is a Methodist.
In the News…
Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who will chair the Senate Banking Committee in the upcoming Congress, highlighted legislation the incoming Senate majority is proposing to address affordability regarding healthcare, housing, and credit card interest rates. She called on President Trump to work with them on these issues.
Senator Warren said, “President Trump himself said that he wants to reduce interest rates on credit cards to 10 percent. I got the bill. I’m ready to go.”
She continued, “President Trump says he wants to do more on housing. We’re ready. We have the bills ready to go. And besides that, we’ve got a whole bunch more that the American people have told us that they want on price gouging, on protecting our rural hospitals, on making sure that people have access to health care.”
“We have a lot of work lined out that we can do. In fact, those may sound like lots of different pieces. They’re not. They’re all about economic power,” the senator added. “And people have told us that’s what they want. And we’ve got the team to deliver now.”
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The Honorable Elizabeth Warren
Senator from Massachusetts
311 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
