Originally Posted by **********
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She seems awesome to me. From her wiki:
On November 6, 2012, Warren defeated incumbent Scott Brown with a total of 53.7% of the votes. She is the first woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts,[77] as part of a sitting U.S. Senate that has 20 female senators currently in office, the largest female U.S. Senate delegation in history, following the November 2012 elections. In December 2012, Warren was assigned a seat on the Senate Banking Committee, the committee that oversees the implementation of Dodd?Frank and other regulation of the banking industry.[78] Warren was sworn in by Vice President Joe Biden on January 3, 2013.[79] Upon John Kerry's resignation to become United States Secretary of State, Warren became the state's senior senator after having served for less than a month, making her the most junior senior senator.
In 2009, the Boston Globe named her the Bostonian of the Year,[20] and the Women's Bar Association of Massachusetts honored her with the Lelia J. Robinson Award.[96] She was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2009 and 2010.[97] The National Law Journal repeatedly has named Warren as one of the Fifty Most Influential Women Attorneys in America,[98] and in 2010 it honored her as one of the 40 most influential attorneys of the decade.[99] In 2011, Elizabeth Warren was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame.[100] In January 2012, Warren was named a "Top-20 U.S. Progressive" by the New Statesman, a magazine based in the United Kingdom.
In 2009, Warren became the first professor in Harvard's history to win the law school's The Sacks?Freund Teaching Award for a second time.[102] She delivered the commencement address at the Rutgers School of Law?Newark in May 2011, where she was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree and was conferred membership into the Order of the Coif.
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