Kirsten Gillibrand
United States Senator from NY
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Kirsten Gillibrand is New York's junior Democratic senator and chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, serving her third full term focused on sexual assault reform and family leave.
Kirsten Elizabeth Gillibrand is the junior U.S. Senator from New York, a Democrat originally appointed in January 2009 to fill Hillary Clinton's seat upon her confirmation as secretary of state, then elected in her own right in 2010, 2012, 2018, and 2024. An Albany native, Gillibrand graduated from Dartmouth and UCLA Law, clerked for a federal judge, practiced corporate law at Davis Polk, and served as special counsel at HUD in the Clinton administration. She represented New York's 20th Congressional District in the U.S. House from 2007 to 2009. In the 119th Congress, Gillibrand serves on Appropriations, Armed Services, Agriculture, Environment and Public Works, Intelligence, and Aging committees, holding a ranking member position on Aging and chairing the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee on Appropriations. She chairs the Personnel Subcommittee of Armed Services and was appointed chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee for 2026. She has made sexual-assault reform in the military, paid family leave, 9/11 first responders' health care, and reproductive rights central to her work.