Amy Klobuchar

Amy Klobuchar

Amy Jean Klobuchar ( /ˈkloʊbəʃɑr/, born May 25, 1960) is the senior United States Senator from Minnesota. She is a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, an affiliate of the Democratic Party. She is the first elected female senator from Minnesota and is one of seventeen female Senators serving in the 112th United States Congress.

She previously served as the county attorney for Hennepin County, the most populous county in Minnesota. She was a legal adviser to former Vice President Walter Mondale. She has been named by the New York Times as one of the seventeen women most likely to become the first female President of the United States, and by MSNBC as a possible nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.