Katie Porter
Katie Porter is a University of California Professor of Law and candidate for Congress in California’s 45th congressional district.[1] Katie is a member of the Democratic Party. As a consumer and bankruptcy attorney, Porter held positions at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the World Bank, the Federal Judicial Center, and the Uniform Law Commission prior to running for Congress. Her research on public interest advocacy, consumer law, and bankruptcy law has been featured in national law journals, including the Texas Law Review[2], the Georgetown Law Journal[3], the American Bankruptcy Law Journal[4], and the Cornell Law Review.[5]
Early Life and Education[edit]
Katie Porter earned her B.A. in American Studies from Yale University and her J.D. from Harvard Law school, where she studied under now Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Career[edit]
Law Career[edit]
Porter is currently a tenured professor of Law at the University of California Irvine[6].
Porter began her legal career practicing bankruptcy law in Portland, Oregon before clerking for Judge Richard S. Arnold of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. Porter was previously on the faculty of University of Iowa College of Law. She has also been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, UC Berkeley Law, University of Illinois College of Law, and the UNLV Boyd School of Law.
In March 2012, Porter was appointed by then California Attorney General Kamala Harris as an independent monitor of the big banks charged with overseeing the implementation of the $25 billion National Mortgage Settlement[7]. The Monitor program oversaw the implementation of settlement reforms and carried out community outreach and education[8]. Following that assignment, Porter founded the Consumer Protection Clinic at UCI Law in order to involve students in the Monitor’s work.
2018 Congressional Campaign[edit]
Porter announced her candidacy for U.S. Congress on April 3, 2017, challenging incumbent Rep. Mimi Walters in California’s 45th congressional district[9]. In her April 2017 endorsement of Porter, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren said that Porter “Fought relentlessly for important protections that safeguard consumers and force banks to give families a fair shake.”[10] As of January 17, 2018, Porter had also been endorsed by: California Senator Kamala D. Harris, EMILY’s List, Democracy for America, Ocean Champions, The Progressive Change Campaign Committee, The Feminist Majority, Congressmember Lois Frankel, California State Senator Connie M. Leyva, Costa Mesa City Councilmembers Katrina Foley and John Stephens, Chair of The Democratic Foundation of Orange County Dan Jacobsen and Former Chair Wylie Aitken.[11]
Personal Life[edit]
Katie Porter lives in Irvine with her three children.
Books Written[edit]
Author, Modern Consumer Law (Wolters Kluwer 2016)
Co-Author, The Law of Debtors and Creditors (Wolters Kluwer 2014)
Edited, Broke: How Debt Bankrupts the Middle Class (Stanford Press 2012)
Publications[edit]
Pamela Foohey, Robert M. Lawless, Katherine Porter & Deborah Thorne, "No Money Down" Bankruptcy, 90 S. Cal. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2017)[12].
Sara Greene, Parina Patel & Katherine Porter, Cracking the Code: An Empirical Analysis of Consumer Bankruptcy Outcomes, 101 Minn. L. Rev.1031 (2017)[13]
Katherine Porter, The Pretend Solution: An Empirical Study of Bankruptcy Outcomes, 90 Texas L. Rev. 103, 111–112 (2011). Cited in the dissent of U.S. Supreme Court opinion, MIDLAND FUNDING, LLC v. JOHNSON, issued May 15, 2017[14]
Katherine Porter, Waiting for Change: Dual Tracking and Home Foreclosure: The First Report of the California Monitor, Office of the California Attorney General, October 2, 2012.
References[edit]
- ↑ David Siders, “Former Elizabeth Warren student jumps into California House race,” Politico, April 3, 2017.
- ↑ Katie Porter, “The Pretend Solution: An Empirical Study of Bankruptcy Outcomes.” 90 TEX. L. REV. 103 (2011).
- ↑ Katie Porter, “Saving Up for Bankruptcy.” 98 GEORGETOWN L.J. 289 (2010) (with Ronald J. Mann)
- ↑ Katie Porter, “Did Bankruptcy Reform Fail?: An Empirical Study of Consumer Debtors.” 82 AM. BANKR. L.J. 349 (2008).
- ↑ Katie Porter, “The Failure of Bankruptcy’s Fresh Start.” 92 CORNELL L. REV. 67 (2006) (with Deborah Thorne).
- ↑ “Katherine Porter.” University of California at Irvine School of Law.
- ↑ “Federal Government and State Attorneys General Reach $25 Billion Agreement with Five Largest Mortgage Servicers to Address Mortgage Loan Servicing and Foreclosure Abuse.” US Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs. February 9, 2012.
- ↑ Katie Porter, “Waiting for Change. Dual Tracking and Home Foreclosure.” California Monitor, A Project of the California Attorney General, October 2, 2012.
- ↑ Wisckol, Martin (April 3, 2017). "All the facts on Katie Porter, challenger to Rep. Mimi Walters's re-election bid". OC Register.
- ↑ Cadelago, Christopher (April 3, 2017). "Elizabeth Warren protégé runs for Congress in Orange County: 'Katie is a fighter!'". Sacramento Bee.
- ↑ Martin Wisckol, “Here’s who’s backing whom in key OC congressional races,” OC Register, November 20, 2017.
- ↑ ""No Money Down" Bankruptcy". SSRN 2925899.
- ↑ "Cracking the Code: An Empirical Analysis of Consumer Bankruptcy Outcomes". SSRN 2839060.
- ↑ [Cracking the Code: An Empirical Analysis of Consumer Bankruptcy Outcomes "The Pretend Solution: An Empirical Study of Bankruptcy Outcomes"] Check
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