Kirsten Gillibrand, born on December 9, 1966, in Albany, New York, is an attorney and politician who currently serves as the junior New York Senator from New York. Gillibrand has been a Senator since January 2009.
Prior to being New York’s junior senator, she was a congresswoman in the House of Representatives for New York’s 20th congressional district from 2007 until 2009.
On Tuesday, January 15, Gillibrand announced that she would be running for President of the United States in the 2020 Presidential election.
Kirsten Gillibrand Net Worth 2019: Approximately $500,000
According to public records, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has a net worth of $498,502 in the year 2015.
As a United States Senator, Gillibrand gets paid $174,000 per year.
Kirsten Gillibrand Life, Career & Achievements
Gillibrand was born and raised in Albany, New York, where she graduated from Emma Willard School in Troy, New York in 1984. After her high school graduation, Gillibrand began attending Dartmouth College.
While at Dartmouth, Gillibrand majored in Asian Studies and was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. She eventually graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1988. After Dartmouth, Gillibrand attended the UCLA School of Law and passed the bar exam to become a licensed attorney in 1991.
After passing the bar exam, Gillibrand joined the New York City-based law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell.
Following her stint with em>Davis Polk & Wardwell, Gillibrand made the jump into politics when she took a job as Special Counsel to Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and worked on HUD’s Labor Initiative and New Markets Initiative.
In the year 1999, Gillibrand began working for Hillary Clinton’s 2000 United States Senate campaign.
After working on the Clinton Senate campaign, Gillibrand became a partner at New York City’s Boies, Schiller & Flexner law firm.
In the year 2006, Gillibrand was elected as a Congresswoman who represents New York’s 20th congressional district. In 2008, she won re-election and served as Congresswoman until she was elected as a Senator in 2009.
Gillibrand took the Senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton, who was selected by Barack Obama to be his Secretary of State following his Presidential election victory. Gillibrand was sworn in on January 26, 2009, at the age of 42-years-old.
Gillibrand was re-elected to the United States Senate in 2010, 2012, and 2018.
On January 15, 2019, Gillibrand announced that she would be running for President of the United States in the 2020 Presidential election.