- Katie Porter is the Democratic representative for Orange County, California.
- After growing up on a farm in Iowa, she went to Yale and Harvard, and decided she would pursue teaching and bankruptcy law after taking a class from former law professor Elizabeth Warren.
- Until Donald Trump became president, she had never considered running for office.
- Since she was elected in the 2018 midterms, she's shown how effective she can be with her no-nonsense questioning of bank chief executives, elected officials, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
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Democrat Rep. Katie Porter is a fighter.
The professor-turned-congresswoman isn't a typical politician. She's a minivan-driving mother of three, inspired by consumer protections, housing fairness, and women's rights.
She's a bankruptcy expert and law professor, who never thought she'd run for office. But the night President Donald Trump was elected, she changed her mind.
And while it was no easy victory, in a county that had never been won by a Democrat, she had the backing of two powerful Democrats - Elizabeth Warren, her former teacher, and Kamala Harris, her former boss.
Since entering Congress, Porter's been using skills she picked up from her years as a professor and researcher to hold some of the most powerful people in the country to account. American Banker called her the "fiercest disruptor in Congress" since Warren.
Here's a look at Porter's life so far, in photos.