Elizabeth Warren was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1949. She graduated from high school at age 16 and earned a bachelor's in speech pathology in 1970 from the University of Houston. She earned her J.D. from Rutgers Law School at Newark in 1976. Warren worked as a professor at the University of Houston, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University. In the mid-1990s, Warren served on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission. In 1996, she changed her affiliation from Republican to Democratic. Warren served as the chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program and as a special adviser at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under the Obama administration.
