- Member of U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin, 3 January, 1999 - 3 January, 2013.
- Graduated from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
- United State Senator from Wisconsin, 2013 - present. Her election also made her the first openly gay Senator in history.
- Third cousin of actor and comedian Andy Samberg. Her maternal grandfather, biochemist David Ezra Green, and Andy's maternal grandfather were first cousins.
- Through her Baldwin ancestry she is the distant cousin of many famous people including fellow Senator Elizabeth Warren.
She is also a distant cousin to actress Christina Appelgate through their common ancestry of Vincent Runyon and his wife Anna Martha Boutcher.
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