Social Workers in Congress

U.S. Senate

Debbie Stabenow

Senator Debbie Stabenow

Democrat

Representing the State of Michigan
Elected: 2000 (Served in House 1997-2001)
Education:
B.A., Michigan State University
M.S.W., Michigan State University

Senator Krysten Sinema

Senator Krysten Sinema

Democrat

Representing the State of Arizona
Elected: 2018
Education:
M.S.W., Arizona State University
J.D., Arizona State University College of Law
Ph.D., Arizona State University

U.S. House

Barbara Lee

Rep. Barbara Lee

Democrat

California’s 13th Congressional District
Elected: 1998
​Chair, Congressional Social Work Caucus
Education:
B.A., Mills College
M.S.W., University of California at Berkeley

Sylvia Garcia

Rep. Sylvia Garcia

Democrat

Texas’s 29th Congressional District
Elected: 2018
Education:
M.S.W., Texas Women’s University

J.D., Texas Southern University

 

Hillary Scholten

Democrat

Michigan’s 3rd Congressional District
Elected: 2022
Education:
B.S.W., Gordon College
J.D., University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law