Gregory Meeks

Gregory Meeks
Official portrait, 2018
Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee
Incumbent
Assumed office January 3, 2023
Preceded by	Michael McCaul
Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee
In office January 3, 2021 – January 3, 2023
Preceded by	Eliot Engel
Succeeded by	Michael McCaul
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York
Incumbent
Assumed office February 5, 1998
Preceded by	Floyd Flake
Constituency	6th district (1998–2013) 5th district (2013–present)
Member of the New York State Assembly from the 31st district
In office January 1, 1993 – January 3, 1998
Preceded by	Anthony S. Seminerio
Succeeded by	Pauline Rhodd-Cummings
Personal details
Born	Gregory Weldon Meeks (1953-09-25) September 25, 1953 (age 70) New York City, New York, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Simone-Marie Meeks
Children	3
Education	Adelphi University (BA) Howard University (JD)
Website	Campaign website House website
Gregory Meeks's voice Meeks opens a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the UN and U.S. global leadership Recorded June 16, 2021

Gregory Weldon Meeks (born September 25, 1953) is an American lawyer and politician who has been a U.S. representative from New York since 1998. He is a member of the Democratic Party and chaired the House Committee on Foreign Affairs from 2021 to 2023. He still sits on the committee as ranking member.

In the last Congress, Meeks's district included most of southeastern Queens, including Jamaica, Laurelton, Rosedale, Cambria Heights, Saint Albans, Springfield Gardens, The Rockaways, and the John F. Kennedy International Airport. It was made up largely of economically diverse African-American and West Indian American communities, but also included a small part of Ozone Park and part of Howard Beach known as Old Howard Beach, both of which are predominantly middle-class Italian-American communities. He also represented much of Kew Gardens and northern Richmond Hill, as well as the largely Irish American western part of Rockaway Peninsula.