Katherine Clark

Katherine Clark
Official portrait, 2023
House Minority Whip
Incumbent
Assumed office January 3, 2023
Leader	Hakeem Jeffries
Preceded by	Steve Scalise
Assistant Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
In office January 3, 2021 – January 3, 2023
Leader	Nancy Pelosi
Preceded by	Ben Ray Luján
Succeeded by	Jim Clyburn (Assistant Democratic Leader)
Vice Chair of the House Democratic Caucus
In office January 3, 2019 – January 3, 2021
Leader	Nancy Pelosi
Preceded by	Linda Sánchez
Succeeded by	Pete Aguilar
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 5th district
Incumbent
Assumed office December 12, 2013
Preceded by	Ed Markey
Member of the Massachusetts Senate
In office January 5, 2011 – December 10, 2013
Preceded by	Richard Tisei
Succeeded by	Jason Lewis
Constituency	Middlesex and Essex district (2011–2013) 5th Middlesex district (2013)
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the 32nd Middlesex district
In office March 13, 2008 – January 5, 2011
Preceded by	Mike Festa
Succeeded by	Paul Brodeur
Member of the Melrose School Board
In office 2001–2007
Personal details
Born	Katherine Marlea Clark (1963-07-17) July 17, 1963 (age 60) New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Rodney Dowell ​ (m. 1992)​
Children	3
Education	St. Lawrence University (BA) Cornell University (JD) Harvard University (MPA)
Website	House website Party website
Katherine Clark's voice Clark introduces the Every Prescription Conveyed Securely (EPCS) Act Recorded June 22, 2018

Katherine Marlea Clark (born July 17, 1963) is an American lawyer and politician who has served as House Minority Whip since 2023 and the U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 5th congressional district since 2013. She previously served as Assistant Speaker^[a] from 2021 to 2023 and Vice Chair of the House Democratic Caucus from 2019 to 2021. Clark was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2008 to 2011 and the Massachusetts Senate from 2011 to 2013.

Born in Connecticut, Clark worked as an attorney in several states before moving to Massachusetts in 1995, where she worked in state government. She joined the Melrose School Committee in 2002, becoming committee chair in 2005. She was first elected to the state legislature in 2008, and contributed to legislation regarding criminal justice, education, and municipal pensions. She is in her sixth term in Congress, having won the 2013 special election for the U.S. House of Representatives to succeed Ed Markey in the 5th district, and sits on the House Appropriations Committee.

Clark's district includes many of Boston's northern and western satellite cities and suburbs, such as Medford, Framingham, Woburn, Waltham, and her home city of Revere.
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