Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick

Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 13th district
Incumbent
Assumed office January 7, 1997
Preceded by	Lynn Rivers
Succeeded by	Incumbent

Born	June 25, 1945 (1945-06-25) (age 62) Detroit, Michigan
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	divorced
Religion	African Methodist Episcopal

Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (born June 25, 1945, Detroit, Michigan) is an American politician. She has been a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives since 1997. Since the 2002 redistricting, she has represented the 13th District comprised of most of Detroit and portions of Downriver. She is the Chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus in the 110th Congress (2007-8) and the mother of Detroit's current mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick.

Born Carolyn Jean Cheeks, she graduated from the Detroit High School of Commerce. She then attended Ferris State University in Big Rapids from 1968 to 1970 and received a B.S. from Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo) in 1972. She earned a M.S. from the University of Michigan in 1977. She worked as a teacher and was a member of the Michigan State House of Representatives from 1979 to 1996. She is a member of the Detroit Substance Abuse Advisory Council.

Having defeated incumbent Barbara-Rose Collins in the 1996 Democratic primary, Kilpatrick was elected as a Democrat from Michigan's 15th congressional district to the 105th and to the three succeeding Congresses, serving in the U.S. House from January 3, 1997 to the present. After redistricting in 2003, she began representing the 13th district.

She was one of the 31 who voted in the House to Not count the electoral votes from Ohio in the United States presidential election, 2004. [1]

On December 6, 2006, The Congressional Black Caucus unanimously chose Kilpatrick as its chairwoman for the next two years.

Political offices
Preceded by Barbara-Rose Collins	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 15th congressional district 1997–2003	Succeeded by John Dingell, Jr.
Preceded by Lynn N. Rivers	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 13th congressional district 2003–Present	Succeeded by Present
Preceded by Melvin Watt North Carolina	Chairman of Congressional Black Caucus 2007–Present	Succeeded by Incumbent

v • d • e Chairs of the Congressional Black Caucus
Diggs • Stokes • Rangel • Burke • Mitchell • Collins • Fauntroy • Dixon • Leland • Dymally • Dellums • Towns • Mfume • Payne • Waters • Clyburn • Johnson • Cummings • Watt • Kilpatrick

v • d • e Michigan's current delegation to the United States Congress
Senators	Carl Levin (D), Debbie Stabenow (D)
Representative(s)	Bart Stupak (D), Pete Hoekstra (R), Vern Ehlers (R), David Lee Camp (R), Dale Kildee (D), Fred Upton (R), Tim Walberg (R), Mike J. Rogers (R), Joe Knollenberg (R), Candice Miller (R), Thad McCotter (R), Sander Levin (D), Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (D), John Conyers (D), John Dingell (D)
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