Elissa Slotkin

Elissa Blair Slotkin is an American politician and former Department of Defense official serving since 2025 as the junior United States senator from Michigan. A member of the Democratic Party, she served in the United States House of Representatives from 2019 to 2025. Slotkin was a Central Intelligence Agency analyst and Department of Defense official, ending her career there as the acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs.