Michael Bennet
Michael F. Bennet is a Democratic member of the United States Senate, representing Colorado.
Bennet served as the Superintendent of the Denver Public Schools before running for the U.S. Senate. He has also been Chief of Staff to Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, Managing Director at the Anschutz Investment Company, and Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General at the Department of Justice during the Clinton Administration.
Michael earned his bachelor’s degree with honors from Wesleyan University and his law degree from Yale Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of The Yale Law Journal.
In 1997, Bennet married Susan Daggett, a successful natural resources lawyer. Michael and Susan are the parents of three daughters: Caroline, Halina, and Anne.[1]
Committees
- Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs
- Financial Institutions subcommittee
- Security and International Trade and Finance subcommittee
- Securities, Insurance and Investment
- Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP)
- Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
- Subcommittee on Rural Revitalization, Conservation, Forestry and Credit subcommittee
- Subcommittee on Hunger, Nutrition and Family Farms subcommittee
- Subcommittee on Energy, Science and Technology subcommittee
- Senate Special Committee on Aging[2]