Kathleen Marie Hobbs is an American politician and social worker who is the governor-elect of Arizona and the current secretary of State of Arizona.
A member of the Democratic Party, she was a state senator representing Arizona’s 24th legislative district from 2013 to 2019 and a state representative representing Arizona’s 15th legislative district from 2011 to 2013.
Hobbs won the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial election, narrowly defeating Republican nominee Kari Lake. The Associated Press projected her as the winner on November 14, 2022. Hobbs is set to become Arizona’s fifth female governor, a record for U.S. states.
In October 2020, Hobbs announced her candidacy for governor in the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial election. Incumbent Governor Doug Ducey is term-limited. She defeated Marco A. Lopez Jr. in the Democratic primary election to become the nominee and skipped the primary debate with him.
Katie Hobbs Age
Katie Hobbs is 52 years. She was on born December 28, 1969. Hobbs graduated from Seton Catholic High School in Chandler, Arizona in 1988.
She earned her bachelor’s degree in social work from Northern Arizona University in 1992 and a master’s degree in social work from Arizona State University in 1995.
In 2012, she was elected to the state Senate. And in 2015, she became the Senate minority leader. Secretary Hobbs fought for people all across the state, helping expand Medicaid and providing health care for hundreds of thousands of Arizonans.
She worked to secure the rights of victims of sexual and domestic violence, and she worked diligently and with integrity to provide new opportunities in education and job training.
She was elected Arizona secretary of state in 2018. She modernized the office, fixed faulty and broken systems, and battled misinformation from foreign and domestic sources.
Katie Hobbs Height
Katie Hobbs stands at 5 feet 5 inches tall.
Katie Hobbs Parents
Katie grew up in Tempe in a hard-working middle-class family that knows the value of a dollar and the dignity of hard work.
She learned the value of service from her parents and from her faith. Starting as a kid who volunteered at church, she has spent her entire life serving – and has never stopped.
Katie has never shared information about her parents’ names or personal lives in the media. Although she is always in the public sphere, she prefers to keep her family life away from the media and focus primarily on the work she does for her community.
Katie Hobbs Husband
Patrick Goodman is known as the husband of Katie Hobbs. He is a social worker. He is a professor of law at UCLA. But not much is known about his personal life outside of work other than he is married and has two children with his wife.
Katie Hobbs Children
Katie Hobbs is now married to Patrick Goodman and has 2 children. She is also Catholic.
Every year on December 28th, Katie Hobbs and her family and friends get together to celebrate her birthday.
As mentioned earlier, Katie tends to keep her family life away from work. Personal details about her children are unknown.