Debbie Stabenow (Democratic Party) is a member of the U.S. Senate from Michigan. She assumed office on January 3, 2001. Her current term ends on January 3, 2025.
Stabenow (Democratic Party) ran for re-election to the U.S. Senate to represent Michigan. She won in the general election on November 6, 2018.
On January 5, 2023, Stabenow announced that she would not run for re-election in 2024.
Stabenow began her political career in the Michigan House of Representatives, where she served from 1979 until her election to the State Senate in 1990. She served in the Senate until 1994 and was later elected to the U.S. House in 1996. Stabenow served in that position until her election to the U.S. Senate in 2000.
She served as chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee from 2011 to 2015 and became chair of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee in 2017.
As of a 2014 analysis of multiple outside rankings, Stabenow is an average Democratic member of Congress, meaning she will vote with the Democratic Party on the majority of bills.
Stabenow was born in 1950 in Gladwin, MI, and attended high school in Clare, MI. She earned both her B.A. and her M.S.W. from Michigan State University in 1972 and 1975, respectively. Stabenow has also worked as a social worker.
