Sen. Elizabeth Warren: A Timeline


 Jan. 20 - Age on Inauguration Day 71 years, 7 months.







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Assistant to the President and Special Advisor to the Sec. of the Treasury for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 2010-11.
 Sept. - Announces she will run for U.S. Senate.
 Unopposed for the Dem. nomination.  Sept. 5 - Addresses Dem. Nat'l Convention.  Nov. 6 - Elected to U.S. Senate, def. Sen. Scott Brown (R) by 53.74% to 46.19%.
April 22 - Author of A Fighting Chance (Metropolitan Books).
July - Ready for Warren launches at Netroots Nation (+).  Dec. - MoveOn launches campaign (+).

April 17- Author of This Fight Is Our Fight (Henry Holt).
 Nov. 6 - Re-elected def. state Rep. Geoff Diehl, 60.3% to 36.3%
Dec. 31 - Announces formation of exploratory committee.
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2012
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2019



Co-authors The Fragile Middle Class: Americans in Debt (Yale University Press).  Radcliffe Institute fellow, 2001-02.
With daughter Amelia Warren Tyagi authors The Two-Income Trap  (Basic Books).

With daughter Amelia Warren Tyagi authors All Your Worth (Simon and Schuster).
Nov. - Appointed by Majority Leader Harry Reid to chair Congressional Oversight Panel on TARP.
2000
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2009

 


Visiting professor of commercial law at Harvard University.

Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.  Advisor to National Bankrupty Review Commission.



1990
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1999

 
Divorce.
Marries Bruce Mann.

Professor of law at the University of Texas at Austin.
Visiting professor at the University of Michigan Law School.
Professor of law at the  University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Co-authors As We Forgive Our Debtors (Oxford Univ. Press).
1980
1981
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1989

 
B.S. in speech and pathology from University of Houston.  Moves to NJ.  Speech pathologist teacher at elem. school.
 Daughter Ameila born.
Starts law school at Rutgers.

J.D. from Rutgers University.  Son Alex born.  Practices law.
 Teaches at Rutgers School  of Law-Newark, 1977-78.
 The Warrens move to Houston.
Assistant professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center.
 The Warrens separate.
1970
1971
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1979

 

Father suffers heart attack.  Mother goes to work at Sears.



Graduates from Northwest Classen High School.  Attends George Washington University on scholarship, 1966-68.
Leaves GW, marries Jim Warren, and they move to Houston.
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First job, babysitting.
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Born Elizabeth Herring on June 22, 1949 in Oklahoma City, OK, youngest of 4 children (three older brothers).
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