Karen J. Clark
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| Member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from the 62A district 59A (1981–1983), 60A (1983–1993), 61A (1993–2013) |
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Assumed office January 6, 1981 |
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| Preceded by | Linda Berglin |
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July 23, 1945 Fort Sill, Oklahoma |
| Political party | Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party |
| Domestic partner | Jacquelyn Zita |
| Residence | Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Occupation | College instructor |
Karen J. Clark (born July 23, 1945) is a Minnesota politician and member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), she represents District 62A, which includes portions of the city of Minneapolis in the Twin Cities metropolitan area including portions of the Whittier, Phillips, Ventura Village, Seward, and Lyn-Lake neighborhoods. She is the longest serving openly lesbian member to serve in a state legislature in the United States.
Raised on a farm in southwestern Minnesota, Clark attended public schools in Edgerton, graduating from Edgerton High School in 1963. She earned her B.S. in nursing at the College of Saint Teresa in Winona. She later attended the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, earning her Master of Public Administration degree in 1996.
Clark has been an instructor at the University of Minnesota since 1985. She previously worked as public health nurse, VISTA nurse-organizer and an OB-GYN Nurse Practitioner. She is a member of the adjunct Faculty of the Department of Human Relations at St. Cloud State University, of the University of Minnesota’s Women’s Studies Department, of the Macalester College Women’s Studies Department, and of the College of St. Catherine Graduate School of Holistic Health. She is a member of AFSCME.
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