Katie Porter

Porter was born on January 3, 1974, and grew up in the small farming community of Fort Dodge, Iowa.[4][5] Her father was a farmer-turned-banker.[6] Her mother, Liz, was a founder of Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting.

After graduating from Phillips Academy,[3][7] Porter attended Yale University, where she majored in American studies, graduating in 1996.[8] Her undergraduate thesis was titled The Effects of Corporate Farming on Rural Community.[9] She was a member of Grace Hopper College (then called Calhoun College) at Yale.[10] Porter also interned for Chuck Grassley during this time.[11]

Porter later attended Harvard Law School, where she was the Notes editor for the Harvard Women’s Law Journal.[12] She studied under bankruptcy law professor and future U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, and graduated magna cum laude with her Juris Doctor in 2001.[6]

Porter clerked for Judge Richard S. Arnold of the United States Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit in Little Rock, Arkansas.[12] She practiced with the law firm of Stoel Rives LLP in Portland, Oregon,[12] and was the Project Director for the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges' Business Bankruptcy Project.[13][14][15][12][16][17]

Porter was Associate Professor of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Law.[12] In 2005, she joined the faculty of the University of Iowa College of Law as an associate law professor,[12] becoming a full professor there in 2011[18] before joining the faculty as a tenured professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law in 2011.[8][19] Porter's textbook Modern Consumer Law addresses consumer laws in light of Dodd–Frank and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.[20]

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.[21] As monitor, she oversaw the banks' implementation of $9.5 billion in settlement reforms for Californians.[22]

In 2016, Porter worked on the Hillary Clinton's transition team on housing policy.[23]

In 2003, Porter married Matthew Hoffman, with whom she has three children. During her campaign, she said her marriage was marked by physical and mental abuse. According to Porter, Hoffman punched her, shoved her one-year-old daughter across the kitchen, threatened to kill himself, and directed profane insults at her family.[6] She sought a protective order against him in 2013.[4] The same year, they divorced. Porter is now a single mother with custody of their children.[1] Her daughter, Betsy, is named after Elizabeth Warren.[11]

• Women in the United States House of Representatives

• Modern Consumer Law (Aspen Casebook) (2016), Wolters Kluwer ISBN 978-1454825036
• Katherine Porter - Faculty Profile - University of California, Irvine School of Law

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• Katherine Porter - Curriculum Vitae - University of California, Irvine School of Law

• (lists publication of books and articles)

• Katherine Porter - Faculty Bibliography - University of Iowa College of Law

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• Katherine Porter - Blog - University of Iowa
• CreditSlips, bankruptcy blog co-founded and written by Katie Porter, Elizabeth Warren, and five other bankruptcy professors

• Congresswoman Katie Porter official U.S. House website
• Katie Porter for Congress campaign website

• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Profile at Vote Smart
• Financial information (federal office) at the Federal Election Commission
• Legislation sponsored at the Library of Congress
• Katie Porter - Campaign Finance Summary at the Center for Responsive Politics
• Appearances on C-SPAN