Katie Porter – Bio, Net Worth, Husband, Children, Parents, Party, Wiki

Katie Porter is an American politician, law professor, and lawyer who is currently serving as U.S. representative from California’s 47th congressional district since 2023. Porter is the first Democrat to be elected to represent the district, covering much of south-central Orange County, including Irvine, Tustin, and Lake Forest along with large portions of Anaheim and Laguna Niguel. From 2019 to 2023, she represented the 45th congressional district. She was reelected in 2022 in California’s newly redistricted 47th congressional district by defeating Republican nominee Scott Baugh by 51.6%-48.4% of the vote. She is deputy chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and has received media attention for her questioning during congressional hearings. She gained attention for her tough line of questioning against Trump officials, as well as CEOs from big Pharma, Oil, and tech companies. Her political party is democratic. 

What is Katie Porter Known For?

• Katie Porter is a politician, law professor, and lawyer. 
• Porter is known for being the U.S. representative from California’s 47th congressional district since 2023. 
• She is also recognized for representing the 45th congressional district from 2019 to 2023. 

Where was Katie Porter born?

Katie Porter took birth on January 3, 1974. Her birth name is Katherine Moore Porter. She was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, U.S. where she grew up and spent her early childhood. Her father, Dan Porter, was a farmer-turned-banker. Her mother, Liz, was a founder of Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting. She is American when it comes to her nationality and her ethnic background is American-White. Katie happily celebrated her 49th birthday on January 3, 2023. Capricorn is her zodiac sign as per her birthdate. She follows the Christianity religion.

Moving to her educational qualification, Katie graduated from Phillips Academy. She attended Yale University, where she majored in American studies, graduating in 1996. Her undergraduate thesis was titled The Effects of Corporate Farming on Rural Community. She was a member of Grace Hopper College (then called Calhoun College) at Yale. She also interned for Chuck Grassley during this time. She later attended Harvard Law School, where she was the notes editor for the Harvard Women’s Law Journal and a member of the Board of Student Advisers. After that, she studied under bankruptcy law professor and future U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren and graduated magna cum laude with her Juris Doctor in 2001. 

Katie Porter Political Career

• Porter, at first, was a law clerk for Judge Richard S. Arnold of the United States Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit in Little Rock, Arkansas. Then, she practiced with the law firm of Stoel Rives LLP in Portland, Oregon. She was the project director for the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges’ Business Bankruptcy Project. 
• She was also the associate professor of law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Law. She joined the faculty of the University of Iowa College of Law in 2005 as an associate professor, becoming a full professor there in 2011. In the same year, she became a tenured professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. 
• Katie Porter then ran for the United States House of Representatives against two-term incumbent Republican Mimi Walters in California’s 45th congressional district during the 2018 election. She defeated Walters to become the first Democrat to represent the 45th district or its predecessors since it was created in 1953. She was endorsed by End Citizens United, a political action committee seeking to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court 2010 decision Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.
• In March 2019, Porter introduced the “Help America Run Act” (H.R.1623), a bill that would allow people running for the House or Senate to use campaign contributions to pay for healthcare premiums, elder care, child care, and dependent care. 
• In 2020, she ran for reelection to a second term. Porter won with 53.5% of the vote to Raths’s 46.5%. She became the first non-Hispanic Democrat in 38 years to win a second term in an Orange County-based district.
• She voted for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act on November 5, 2021. The act funds electric vehicles, help airports reduce emissions, and funds roads and bridges. 
• Porter, in 2022, was reelected in California’s 47th congressional district, defeating Republican nominee Scott Baugh with 51.6% of the vote to Baugh’s 48.4%. She had voted in line with Joe Biden‘s stated position 98.2% of the time as of June 2022. 

Who is Katie Porter married to?

Katie Porter was a married and divorced woman. In 2003, she married Matthew Hoffman, with whom she has three children namely Luke, Paul, and Betsy. Her daughter, Betsy, is named after Elizabeth Warren. During her campaign, she said her marriage was marked by physical and mental abuse. As per Porter, “Hoffman punched her, shoved her one-year-old daughter across the kitchen, threatened to kill himself, and directed profane insults at her family.” Porter then sought a protective order against him in 2013. The same year, they divorced. 

Katie is now a single mother with custody of their children. She is living a single life happily and she is also focused on her career. Her sexual orietnaiton is striaght. 

How much is Katie Porter’s Net Worth?

Katie Porter is a politician and lawyer who has accumulated a net worth of $1.5 million as of January 2023. She made this fortune from her political career which is her main source of wealth. She is making her annual salary in between $175K-$500k from her professional work. A member of the House of Representatives earns around $174K annually. Katie Porter earned about $250K annually from UCI Law School. She lives a lavish lifestyle from the earnings she made from her career. 

In March 2012, California Attorney General Kamala Harris appointed Porter to be the state’s independent monitor of banks in a nationwide $25 billion mortgage settlement. As a monitor, she oversaw the banks’ implementation of $9.5 billion in settlement reforms for Californians.

How tall is Katie Porter?

Katie Porter is a beautiful woman with a standing height of 5 feet 5 inches or 1.65 in. Her body weight consists of 78 Kg or 171 lbs. She has got an average body type. She has an attractive personality with leadership characteristics. She has got a green pair of eyes with dark brown hair color.