Elissa Slotkin

Elissa Slotkin (D) is a U.S. Senator from Michigan. She is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Senator Slotkin was previously a CIA analyst who served three tours in Iraq alongside the U.S. military. She then worked in national security roles at the Pentagon and White House under President Bush and President Obama. In the Obama Administration, she was nominated to serve as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs at the Pentagon.