Barbara Boxer

Barbara Boxer
Official portrait, 2005
United States Senator
from California
In office
January 3, 1993 – January 3, 2017
Preceded byAlan Cranston
Succeeded byKamala Harris
Ranking Member of the Senate Environment Committee
In office
January 3, 2015 – January 3, 2017
Preceded byDavid Vitter
Succeeded byTom Carper
Chair of the Senate Environment Committee
In office
January 3, 2007 – January 3, 2015
Preceded byJim Inhofe
Succeeded byJim Inhofe
Chair of the Senate Ethics Committee
In office
January 3, 2007 – January 3, 2015
Preceded byGeorge Voinovich
Succeeded byJohnny Isakson
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from California's 6th district
In office
January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1993
Preceded byPhillip Burton
Succeeded byLynn Woolsey
Personal details
Born
Barbara Sue Levy

(1940-11-11) November 11, 1940 (age 83)
New York City, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse
Stewart Boxer
(m. 1962)
Children2
EducationBrooklyn College (BA)
WebsiteSenate website (Archived)

Barbara Sue Boxer (née Levy; born November 11, 1940) is an American politician, lobbyist and former reporter who served in the United States Senate, representing California from 1993 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the U.S. representative for California's 6th congressional district from 1983 until 1993.

Born in Brooklyn, New York City, Boxer graduated from George W. Wingate High School and Brooklyn College. She worked as a stockbroker for several years before moving to California with her husband. During the 1970s, she worked as a journalist for the Pacific Sun and as an aide to U.S. Representative John L. Burton. She served on the Marin County Board of Supervisors for six years and became the board's first female president. With the slogan "Barbara Boxer Gives a Damn", she was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1982, representing California's 6th district.

Boxer won the 1992 election for the U.S. Senate. Running for a third term in 2004, she received 6.96 million votes, becoming the first person to ever get more than 6 million votes in a Senate election and set a record for the most votes in any U.S. Senate election in history, until her colleague, Dianne Feinstein, the senior senator from California, surpassed that number in her 2012 re-election.[1] Boxer and Feinstein were the first female pair of U.S. Senators representing any state at the same time.[2][3][4] Boxer was the ranking member of the Environment and Public Works Committee and the vice chair of the Select Committee on Ethics. She was also the Democratic Chief Deputy Whip. Boxer is known for her liberal perspectives.

Boxer did not seek re-election in 2016.[5] She was succeeded by then-California Attorney General and future Vice President Kamala Harris. In January 2020, Boxer joined Washington, D.C.-based lobbying firm Mercury Public Affairs as co-chairwoman.[6] In January 2021, it was reported that Boxer was working as registered foreign agent for Hikvision, a Chinese state-sponsored surveillance company implicated in human rights abuses.[7] After initially defending her work for Hikvision, Boxer reversed course and deregistered as a foreign agent.[8] In October 2021, Boxer and others led a high-profile mass exodus of employees from Mercury's California office to form their own public affairs and consulting company.[9]

  1. ^ Hotakainen, Rob (October 20, 2010). "California's Boxer faces toughest Senate race yet". McClatchy Newspapers. Lexington Herald-Leader. Archived from the original on December 12, 2021. Retrieved April 2, 2011.
  2. ^ "Jewesses in politics represent! Jewish Women's Archive". Jwa.org. November 5, 2002. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
  3. ^ "Dianne Feinstein ; Congress.gov; Library of Congress". Congress.gov. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
  4. ^ "Barbara Boxer; Congress.gov; Library of Congress". Congress.gov. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
  5. ^ "A MESSAGE FROM BARBARA ABOUT THE FUTURE". Archived from the original on January 8, 2015. Retrieved January 8, 2015.
  6. ^ Meyer, Theodoric (January 7, 2020). "Barbara Boxer joins D.C. lobbying firm". Politico.
  7. ^ Markay, Lachlan (January 12, 2021). "Scoop: Biden inaugural returns cash from ex-senator-turned-foreign agent". Axios. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
  8. ^ McFall, Caitlin (January 12, 2021). "Barbara Boxer 'deregisters' as foreign agent for Chinese surveillance company that targeted Uyghurs". Fox News. Retrieved November 14, 2021.
  9. ^ Mehta, Seema; Mason, Melanie (October 7, 2021). "Former officials Nuñez, Boxer and Villaraigosa lead exodus from powerful lobbying firm". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 14, 2021.

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