Profile: Elizabeth Warren

Born: June 22, 1949, Oklahoma City.

Education: Bachelor’s degree, University of Houston, 1970; law degree, Rutgers School of Law, 1976.

Career: Law professor, Harvard, 1995-present; law professor, University of Pennsylvania, 1987-95; law professor, fellow and research associate, University of Texas, 1983-87; associate law professor and associate dean for academic affairs, University of Houston, 1978-83.

Government work: Chairwoman, Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, 2008-present; chief advisor to the National Bankruptcy Review Commission, 1995-97.

Personal: Married to Bruce Mann, Harvard professor of legal history. They live in Cambridge, Mass. She has two children from a previous marriage and two grandchildren.

Quote: “We need someone in Washington who cares primarily about families, who cares about consumers, who looks at the [financial] products not from the point of view exclusively of bank profitability, but … what they mean to the family, what they mean to communities, what they mean to the economy as a whole.”