Katherine Clark
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Katherine Marlea Clark (born July 17, 1963) is an American politician who has served as the United States Representative for Massachusetts' 5th congressional district since 2013.
Many of Boston's northern and western suburbs, including Medford, Framingham, Woburn, and Clark's hometown of Melrose, are included in the district.
She is a member of the Democratic Party.
She served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2008 to 2011, and as a member of the Massachusetts Senate from 2011 to 2013. Clark, a Connecticut native, served as an attorney in several states before moving to Massachusetts in 1995, where she served in state government.
She joined the Melrose School Committee in 2002 and became chair in 2005.
She was first elected to the state legislature in 2008 and was instrumental in enforcing reforms regarding criminal justice, education, and municipal pensions.
She secured the 2014 special election for the U.S. House of Representatives to replace Ed Markey in the 5th district and sits on the House Appropriations Committee.
She serves as Vice Chair of the House Democratic Caucus, the sixth-ranking position behind the Speaker in the Democratic House of Representatives.
Personal life
Clark is married to Rodney S. Dowell, Chief Bar Counsel for the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers, Massachusetts' state department that oversees the legal profession. They live in Revere and have three children, one of whom identifies as non-binary.
Representatives Annie Kuster, Grace Meng, Lois Frankel, Cheri Bustos, and Julia Brownley appear in the Clark Rooms when Congress is in session.
Early life and career
Katherine Marlea Clark was born on July 17, 1963, in New Haven, Connecticut. She attended St. Lawrence University, Cornell Law School, and Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. She studied in Nagoya, Japan, in 1983.
In her early career, she worked as an attorney in Chicago. She then moved to Colorado, where she worked as a clerk for Judge Alfred A. Arraj of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado and later as a staff attorney for the Colorado District Attorneys' Council. She moved to Massachusetts in 1995 and became general counsel for the state Office of Child Care Services.