Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick Totally Explained

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Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (born June 25, 1945, Detroit, Michigan) is an American politician. She has been a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives since 1997. Since the 2002 redistricting, she's represented the 13th District comprising most of Detroit and portions of Downriver. She is the Chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus in the 110th Congress (2007-8).

Biography

Born Carolyn Jean Cheeks, she graduated from the Detroit High School of Commerce. She then attended Ferris State University in Big Rapids from 1968 to 1970 and received a B.S. from Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo) in 1972. She earned a M.S. from the University of Michigan in 1977. She worked as a teacher and was a member of the Michigan State House of Representatives from 1979 to 1996.
She was married to Bernard Nathaniel Kilpatrick,with whom she's daughter Ayanna and son Kwame Kilpatrick, Detroit's current mayor. She has 5 grandsons, including 2 sets of twins: Ayanna's twins; and Kwame's twins Jelani and Jalil(1996) and Jonas(2002).

Career

She is a member of the Detroit Substance Abuse Advisory Council.
Having defeated incumbent Barbara-Rose Collins in the 1996 Democratic primary, Kilpatrick was elected as a Democrat from Michigan's 15th congressional district to the 105th and to the three succeeding Congresses, serving in the U.S. House from January 3 1997 to the present. After redistricting in 2003, she began representing the 13th district.
She was one of the 31 who voted in the House to not count the electoral votes from Ohio in the United States presidential election, 2004. (External Link

) On December 6, 2006, The Congressional Black Caucus unanimously chose Kilpatrick as its chairwoman for the next two years.

Committee Assignments

Appropriations Committee
- Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government
- Subcommittee on Homeland Security
Canada-United States Inter-Parliamentary Group
Chairperson of the Congressional Black Caucus

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