Background
Krueger was born in Ridgewood,New Jersey to Harvey M. Krueger and Constance Krueger. She has two sisters,Abigail and Cathleen. Her brother,Peter,died of AIDS in 1988. [1] Her father was the CEO of the investment bank Kuhn,Loeb &Co.,and served as vice chairman of Lehman Brothers following the merger with Kuhn,Loeb &Co. in 1977. [2]
She graduated from Ridgewood High School in 1975,earned a B.A. from Northwestern University in Social Policy and Human Development in 1979,and a master's degree from the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy in 1981. [3] [4]
Prior to elected office,Krueger served for 15 years as associate director of the Community Food Resource Center (CFRC),and she is the founding director of the New York City Food Bank. [5]
She is married to John E. Seley,a professor of urban planning and geography at The City University of New York Graduate Center and Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs. [6]
New York Senate
Krueger initially ran for the state Senate in 2000,narrowly losing to Republican Senator Roy M. Goodman by less than a percentage point. [7] Less than two years later,Goodman resigned and Krueger won the special election to replace him. [8] Since then,she has never faced a challenging re-election. [9] Many years later, The New York Times reported that months after the 2000 election that Krueger lost,hundreds of ballots from a pro-Krueger area were found in a Board of Elections air duct,although Krueger did not learn of this until just before the 2002 election that she won. [10]
After the Democratic party took the majority in the 2018 elections,Krueger was elected the Chair of the Senate Finance Committee,one of the most powerful committees in the Senate. [11]
In 2021,Krueger was one of two members of the senate to vote against a bill designating baseball as the official state sport of New York. [12]
Krueger is a member of the Vote Blue Coalition,a progressive group and federal PAC created to support Democrats in New York,New Jersey,and Pennsylvania through voter outreach and mobilization efforts. [13]
Late November 2024,Krueger made proposals to counter the incoming Trump administration encouraging New York and a bloc of liberal northeast states to join Canada. She explained her proposal to Politico,she already made connections in Ottawa to effect Canadian support. [14]
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