Christine Quinn
| Christine Quinn | |
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Quinn at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival
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| Speaker of the New York City Council | |
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In office January 1, 2006 – December 31, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Gifford Miller |
| Succeeded by | Melissa Mark-Viverito |
| Member of the New York City Council from the 3rd district | |
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In office November 2, 1999 – December 31, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Thomas K. Duane |
| Succeeded by | Corey Johnson |
| Constituency | Manhattan: Chelsea, Greenwich Village, Midtown West, Times Square area |
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| Born |
Christine Callaghan Quinn July 25, 1966 Glen Cove, New York |
| Political party |
Democratic Women's Equality Party |
| Spouse(s) | Kim Catullo (m. 2012) |
| Residence | Chelsea, New York City |
| Alma mater | Trinity College |
| Website | Quinn for New York |
Christine Callaghan Quinn (born July 25, 1966) is an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, she formerly served as the Speaker of the New York City Council. The third person to hold this office, she is the first female and first openly gay speaker. As City Council speaker, Quinn was New York City's third most powerful public servant, behind the mayor and public advocate. She ran to succeed Michael Bloomberg as the city's mayor in the 2013 mayoral election, but she came in third in the Democratic primary. Quinn is also a regular CNN political contributor.
Quinn was born in Glen Cove, New York, one of two daughters of Mary (née Callaghan) and Lawrence Quinn. Her mother died of breast cancer in 1982. She went to School of the Holy Child in the village of Old Westbury on Long Island in New York, and graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1988. Her maternal grandmother, Ellen (née Shine) Callaghan, was a survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic.
She served as head of the Housing Justice Campaign for the Association of Neighborhood and Housing Development. Quinn entered politics to manage the City Council campaign of Thomas Duane in 1991, after which she served as Duane's chief of staff for five years. She later became the executive director of the New York City Anti-Violence Project, and was appointed a member of the NYC Police/Community Relations Task Force by then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
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