Diana Louise DeGette (born July 29, 1957) is a politician from the U.S. state of Colorado. She has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1997, representing Colorado's 1st congressional district (map). The district is based in Denver. She was also the Chief Deputy Whip in the 110th United States Congress after the House Majority Whip James Clyburn. DeGette is married to Lino Lipinsky, a partner in the law fir...
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Diana Louise DeGette (born July 29, 1957) is a politician from the U.S. state of Colorado. She has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1997, representing Colorado's 1st congressional district (map). The district is based in Denver. She was also the Chief Deputy Whip in the 110th United States Congress after the House Majority Whip James Clyburn. DeGette is married to Lino Lipinsky, a partner in the law firm of McKenna Long & Aldridge, and she has two daughters.
A fourth-generation Coloradan, DeGette was born in Tachikawa, Japan while her father served in the armed forces. She graduated with honors from Colorado College where she was elected to the prestigious Pi Gamma Mu international honor society in 1979, and earned a Juris Doctor degree from New York University in 1982. She then returned to Denver and began a successful law practice focusing on civil rights and employment litigation.
Long active in Denver politics, she was elected to the...
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