- She was appointed by New York Governor David Paterson to fill in the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton after she became U.S. Secretary of State on January 27, 2009.
- Mother of sons Theodore Gillabrand (born in 2003) and Henry Gillabrand (born in 2008).
- U.S. Representative (D-NY) (January 3, 2007 - January 26, 2009).
- Graduated from Dartmouth College, where she majored in Asian studies, in 1988. Received her Juris Doctor from UCLA Law School in 1991 and passed the bar the same year. Was an associate in the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell in Manhattan before becoming a partner at Boies, Schiller & Flexler in Albany.
- Born and raised in the Albany, New York area.
- One of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World. [April 2014].
- Attended Dartmouth College with Connie Britton and Aisha Tyler.
- Announced her candidacy for the 2020 US presidential election on January 15, 2019.
- Daughter of Polly Edwina (Noonan) and Douglas Paul Rutnik. Her ancestry is Irish, Austrian, German, Scottish, French-Canadian, and one eighth Ashkenazi Jewish (Russian Jewish). Her Rutnik line goes back to her immigrant great-grandfather, Gregor Frederick Rutnik, from Vienna.
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