Karen Handel - Net Worth, Age, Height, Birthday, Bio, Wiki!

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Karen Handel Biography

Karen Handel is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on April 18, 1962 in Washington, D.C., United States. Then, in November of 2003 Handel became chairman of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners in an election for a special replacement of Mike Kenn. Handel received 58 percent of the votes and remained in the position until. Handel had previously run for the office of commissioner in November 2002 but was unsuccessful and was also the chief executive officer and president of the North Fulton County Chamber of Commerce. Handel decided not to seek re-election as Chairman of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners in the hope of running as a Georgia Secretary of State.

Handel received the endorsement of former Republican 2008 Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. as well as former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

In 2009, the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division (DOJ) ordered a halt to the state’s “voter verification” effort (denying it approval under the Voting Rights Act of 1965), determining that “thousands of citizens who are in fact eligible to vote under Georgia law have been flagged” and that the program was “flawed … [and] frequently subjects a disproportionate number of African-American, Asian and/or Hispanic voters to additional, and more importantly, erroneous burdens on the right to register to vote.” This marked the first time since the 1990s that the Justice Department had denied approval to a change in Georgia election practice.

Handel worked for a number of large companies , including the world-renowned eye-care company Ciba Vision as well as the International accounting giant KPMG. She was the president and CEO of the Greater Fulton County Chamber of Commerce. From December 2002 until the end of November, Handel worked as the assistant chief of staff for Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue, where she was a policy adviser and supervising constituent services as well as the Governor’s Mansion and general administrative services.

Karen Christine Handel (nee Walker born on 18 April 1962) is an American politician and businesswoman who was a member of the United States House of Representatives. As a Republican, Handel worked in the field of business prior to entering politics. She was chairperson of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners between 2003 and 2006 after which she was elected Secretary of State for Georgia.

In August 2006, Handel won the Republican primary election for Secretary of State of Georgia, defeating state Senator Bill Stephens of Canton. Handel received 56.6% of the vote to Stephens’ 42.4%. In the November 2006 general election, Handel defeated Democratic nominee Gail Buckner, receiving 54.1% of the vote to Buckner’s 41.8%. Handel was the first elected Republican secretary of state in Georgia history. She served as Georgia Secretary of State from 2007 to 2009.

Karen Handel Net Worth

Karen is one of the richest Politician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Karen Handel's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)

Handel was born Karen Christine Walker in Washington, D.C. on April 18, 1962 and was raised within Upper Marlboro, Maryland. After finishing her studies in May of 1980 at Frederick Douglass High School in Upper Marlboro, Handel attended both Prince George’s Community College, located in Largo, Maryland, and the University of Maryland, University College located located in Adelphi, Maryland, but didn’t earn any degrees. Then, she began working at Hallmark Cards. Then, she became the deputy chief of staff for Vice Dan Quayle’s wife Marilyn and worked to increase awareness about breast cancer and research.

In April 2011, Handel was hired as senior vice president of public policy at breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure (“Komen”). In this position she was responsible for leading the organization’s federal and state advocacy efforts, including management of Advocacy Alliance.

On September 11, 2012, Handel published a book, Planned Bullyhood, about her tenure as vice president of public policy at Susan G. Komen for the Cure. In the book, Handel defended Komen’s short-lived decision to end grants to Planned Parenthood. She refers to Planned Parenthood as “a blatantly partisan” group of “bullies” that began a war with Komen over $700,000, an amount of money “inconsequential” to its $1 billion budget.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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In 2010, Handel ran for Governor of Georgia, narrowly losing the Republican primary to Nathan Deal, who portrayed Handel as overly supportive of gay rights and abortion rights. In 2011, Handel was appointed Senior Vice President of public policy at Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a charity focused on fighting breast cancer. In this role, Handel pushed the charity to cut off Komen’s funding to Planned Parenthood. Following an uproar over the politicization of the charity, Handel resigned from Komen in February 2012.

Who is Karen Handel Dating?

According to our records, Karen Handel married to Steve Handel . As of January 13, 2024, Karen Handel’s is not dating anyone.

Four days after the decision to cut ties with Planned Parenthood, Komen reversed the decision and announced that it would amend the policy to “make clear that disqualifying investigations must be criminal and conclusive in nature and not political”. A few days later, on February 7, 2012, Handel resigned from Komen.

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In March 2009, Handel announced her decision to run for Georgia governor. Handel announced in December 2009 that she would resign as Secretary of State in order to focus on her campaign for governor in the 2010 election full-time. On July 20, 2010, in the Republican primary vote, Handel received 34% and former Congressman Nathan Deal received 23%. Since neither candidate received a majority, they faced off in the Republican gubernatorial run off on August 10, 2010.

On February 5, 2012, The Huffington Post reported that “emails between Komen leadership… confirm Handel’s sole ‘authority’ in crafting and implementing the Planned Parenthood policy… Handel submitted the new grant criteria to Komen leadership in November and the board approved it in December, at which point Komen’s top public health official resigned “on the spot.”

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Karen Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Karen Handel celebrates birthday on April 18 of every year.

On February 2, 2012, Jeffrey Goldberg reported in The Atlantic that “three sources with direct knowledge of the Komen decision-making process told me that the rule was adopted in order to create an excuse to cut-off Planned Parenthood.” Goldberg further reported that his anonymous sources indicated “the decision to create a rule that would cut funding to Planned Parenthood, according to these sources, was driven by the organization’s new senior vice-president for public policy, Karen Handel, a former gubernatorial candidate from Georgia who is anti-abortion and who has stated that since she is ‘pro-life, I do not support the mission of Planned Parenthood'”.

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