Gregory W. Meeks

Congressman Gregory W. Meeks has represented New York in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1998 (105th Congress-Present). Before Congress, Meeks worked as an assistant district attorney, a prosecutor for a special anti-narcotics taskforce, and a chief administrative judge for New York State’s worker compensation system. He was also a member of the New York State Assembly. Currently, Meeks is the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and formerly served as the first African American chair of the committee in the 117th Congress. Meeks is also a senior member on the Financial Services Committee, where he served as the chair of the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions. Meeks previously served as a Dodd-Frank conferee. Key provisions in the Wall Street reform law-including its stress testing requirement, the creation of the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion at the financial regulatory agencies, and the requirement that U.S. public companies who use natural resources to report their due diligence in stamping out conflict minerals-were co-authored by Meeks. He also introduced a bill that would require government contractors and public companies to submit data on the racial, ethnic, and gender composition of their corporate boards. Meeks earned a bachelor’s degree from Adelphi University and his Juris Doctor degree from Howard University School of Law.