Hakeem Jeffries

Sekou Hakeem Jeffries (* August 4, 1970 in Brooklyn, New York City ) is an American politician. Since 2013 he represents the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Hakeem Jeffries studied until 1992 at Binghamton University in Vestal and thereafter until 1994 at Georgetown University in Washington DC After a subsequent law degree from New York University in New York City and his 1997 was admitted as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. In 1997 and 1998 he worked as a Law Clerk at the Federal District Court for the Southern part of the State of New York. He then practiced as a private attorney. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 2007 and 2012 he sat as an MP in the New York State Assembly. In the years 2000 and 2002 had already unsuccessfully candidate in the primaries of his party for this body. In the state legislature he was a member of six committees and four subcommittees.

In the congressional elections of 2012, Jeffries was elected with over 90 percent of the vote in the eighth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Jerrold Nadler on January 3, 2013, who joined in the tenth district. The area, which mainly represents now the eighth district, had previously been represented by not more candidates Ed Towns. Jeffries is a member of the Budget Committee and the Judiciary Committee and two subcommittees.