Katie Britt

About Katie Britt

Katie Elizabeth Britt is an American politician and attorney who is the junior United States senator from Alabama since 2023. A member of the Republican Party, Britt is the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate from Alabama and the youngest Republican woman ever elected to the Senate. She was president and CEO of the Business Council of Alabama from 2019 to 2021, and was chief of staff for her Senate predecessor, Richard Shelby, from 2016 to 2018.

After she graduated from the University of Alabama, where, in 2004, she earned a Bachelor of Science degree, Britt joined the staff of U.S. Senator Richard Shelby in May 2004 as deputy press secretary. She was later promoted to press secretary. In 2007, she left Shelby's staff and worked as a special assistant to University of Alabama president Robert Witt. At the University of Alabama School of Law, she participated in Tax Moot Court. Katie would earn a Juris Doctorate Degree in 2013 from the University of Alabama School of Law.

After law school, Britt first worked at Johnston Barton Proctor & Rose LLP in Birmingham. When the firm shut down in March 2014, Britt and 17 other former employees joined the Birmingham office of Butler Snow LLP. She founded the firm's government affairs branch. In November 2015, Britt took a leave of absence from Butler Snow to return to Shelby's staff, working on his reelection campaign as deputy campaign manager and communications director.

In 2016, Shelby named Britt his chief of staff. She became a top advisor to Shelby and head of his Judicial Nomination Task Force. n May 2016, Yellowhammer News named Britt one of "the people who will be running Alabama in a few years".

Katie Britt is married to Wesley Britt, a former NFL player. They met while attending the University of Alabama,[and married on March 8, 2008. They live in Montgomery, Alabama, and have two children.