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Center on Politics and Foreign Relations | Political Profiles

Tim KaineDNC Chairman Tim Kaine

BORN: February 26, 1958 in Minnesota

EDUCATION:

    B.A. in economics from University of Missouri in 1979
    Coro fellow in Kansas City in 1978

J.D. Harvard Law School 1983 – took a year long break to work with the Jesuit
order as a Catholic missionary in Honduras.


CAREER:

    Current Democratic National Committee (elected in 2009) – announced he intends
to remain chair for another two year term.
    Governor of Virginia 2006-2010
Elected to the post of lieutenant governor (2002-2006) and worked for four years with Governor Mark Warner in 2001
Elected to the Richmond City Council in 1994 and served four terms, including two terms as Richmond’s mayor from 1998-2002.
Taught legal ethics at the University of Richmond Law School for six years.
Practiced law in Richmond VA, specializing in fair-housing issues, and published a law manual on fair housing in 1991

Kaine has a reputation as a fiscal conservative but a progressive on social issues like education, the environment, and health care.


Met his wife Anne Holton while studying at Harvard.

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