Betty Koed
Betty Koed | |
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| 3rd Historian of the United States Senate | |
| Assumed office June 1, 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Donald A. Ritchie |
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| Education | Santa Barbara City College University of California, Santa Barbara (BA, MA, PhD) |
Betty K. Koed is the current Historian of the United States Senate.[1] She is the third person to hold that position and the first woman to do so.
Koed graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1983 and received a bachelor's in English. She went on to earn her master's and PhD in history, also from University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1991 and 1999 respectively, after beginning her career as a technical writer.[2][3] While pursuing her PhD, Koed studied with Otis L. Graham Jr. and Robert Kelley at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[4]
She later went on to teach American History at the University of California, Santa Barbara before joining the Senate Historical Office in 1998.[2]
Koed won the Distinguished Alumni Award from UC Santa Barbara in 2016.[5]
References
- ^ "The Senate Historical Office". www.senate.gov. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
- ^ a b "Betty K. Koed | AHA". www.historians.org. Retrieved 2017-03-18.
- ^ "Alumni Spotlight: Betty Koed". ucsbalum.com. Archived from the original on 2017-03-19. Retrieved 2017-03-18.
- ^ "Betty K. Koed | AHA". www.historians.org. Retrieved 2019-08-12.
- ^ "Past Award Recipients | UC Santa Barbara Alumni". www.alumni.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-24.
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