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Katie McGinty

Katie McGinty
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Chief of Staff to the Governor of Pennsylvania
In office
January 20, 2015 – July 23, 2015
Governor Tom Wolf
Preceded by Leslie Gromis-Baker
Succeeded by Mary Isenhour
Pennsylvania Secretary of Environmental Protection
In office
January 2003 – July 2008
Governor Ed Rendell
Preceded by David Hess
Succeeded by John Hanger
Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality
In office
January 5, 1995 – November 7, 1998
President Bill Clinton
Preceded by Michael Deland
Succeeded by George Frampton
Personal details
Born Kathleen Alana McGinty
(1963-05-11) May 11, 1963 (age 53)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Karl Hausker
Alma mater St. Joseph's University (BS)
Columbia University (JD)
Website Campaign website

Kathleen Alana "Katie" McGinty (born May 11, 1963) is an American former state and federal environmental policy official. She served as an environmental advisor to Vice President Al Gore and President Bill Clinton. Later, she served as Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection in the Cabinet of Governor Ed Rendell.

Prior to the nomination of Lisa P. Jackson, she was mentioned as a possible United States Environmental Protection Agency Administrator under President Barack Obama, and as a possible candidate to succeed Ed Rendell as Governor of Pennsylvania, but was not a candidate in the 2010 election.

McGinty was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania in 2014.

After Democrat Tom Wolf won Pennsylvania's 2014 gubernatorial election, he appointed McGinty as his Chief of Staff.

On August 4, 2015, she officially announced her candidacy for the United States Senate in 2016. McGinty won the Democratic nomination on April 26, 2016, but lost, with 47.2% of the vote, to incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Pat Toomey in the general election.

The ninth of ten children of a retired police officer and a waitress, McGinty was born in Philadelphia and is of Irish Catholic descent.


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