Karen Clark

Infobox_State_Representative
name= Rep. Karen Clark

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state_house=Minnesota
district= 61A
term_start= 1980
term_end= present
preceded=
succeeded=
date of birth=birth date and age|1945|07|23
place of birth=Fort Sill, Oklahoma
residence=Minneapolis, Minnesota
spouse=Jacquelyn
profession= College instructor
religion=Roman Catholic
party= DFL|

Karen J. Clark is a politician from Minneapolis, Minnesota and a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A DFLer, Clark represents District 61A, which includes parts of Minneapolis.

First elected in November 1980, Clark is currently serving her fourteenth term in the legislature where she chairs the House Subcommittee on Housing Policy and Finance and Public Health.

Raised on a farm in southwestern Minnesota, Clark attended public schools in Edgerton, Minnesota. She earned her B.S. in nursing at the College of Saint Teresa in Winona, Minnesota. She would later go to Harvard University for a Master of Public Administration, which she earned in 1996.

Clark worked as a nurse until her election to the state house in 1980 and has been an instructor at the University of Minnesota since 1985.

She is a lesbian [cite web
url=http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2004/03/09_scheckt_samesex/
title=Debate over gay marriage ban begins at Capitol
last=Scheck
first=Tom
date=2004-03-09
publisher=Minnesota Public Radio
accessdate=2008-05-12] and is one of three openly gay members of the Minnesota Legislature, alongside Senators D. Scott Dibble (D–Minneapolis) and Paul Koering (R–Fort Ripley). [cite web
url=http://www.glli.org/out_officials
title=GLLI: Out Officials
accessdate=2008-05-12]

References

External links

* [http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/members/members.asp?district=61A Official legislative website]
* [http://www.votekaren.org/ Campaign homepage]