Cory Anthony Booker

Senator Cory Booker has served the state of New Jersey in the U.S. Senate since 2013 (113th Congress-Present). Before Congress, Booker was Mayor of Newark, New Jersey and served on the Newark City Council. Booker sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee; the Foreign Relations Committee; the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; and the Small Business Committee. Previous committee assignments have included: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs; and Committee on Environment and Public Works. Booker has been a national leader in criminal justice reform and the effort to end mass incarceration, helping craft the most sweeping set of criminal justice reforms in a generation, the First Step Act, which became law in December 2018. He has been a leader in the Senate in the fight to protect the Affordable Care Act while also championing proposals to build upon the law, increase access to care, and lower costs. Booker earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Stanford University. He attended Queen’s College, Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship before attending Yale Law School.