Lisa Murkowski

Lisa Murkowski is a U.S. Senator from Alaska, first appointed in 2002 to fill her father's Senate seat. Born in Ketchikan, she graduated from Georgetown University and Willamette College of Law. Before her Senate career, she served in the Alaska State House of Representatives and worked as an attorney. She was notably elected as a write-in candidate in 2010 and has been reelected multiple times, serving on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee.