19 Facts About Kenyan McDuffie

Kenyan R McDuffie was born on c 1975 and is an American lawyer and independent politician in Washington, DC.

Kenyan McDuffie is an at-large member of the Council of the District of Columbia since 2023, after previously representing Ward 5 from 2012 to 2023.

Kenyan McDuffie later worked for the United States Postal Service, delivering mail in the Friendship Heights and Spring Valley neighborhoods.

Kenyan McDuffie received a juris doctor from University of Maryland School of Law in 2006.

Kenyan McDuffie later worked for Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton in both her local constituent services office and Capitol Hill office, where he drafted legislation.

In 2010, Kenyan McDuffie became a policy advisor to Public Safety and Justice Deputy Mayor Paul Quander, serving as a liaison to public safety agencies.

Kenyan McDuffie has served as president of the Stronghold Civic Association.

In February 2010, Kenyan McDuffie resigned from his position in the mayor's administration and declared his candidacy to represent Ward 5 on the Council of the District of Columbia.

Kenyan McDuffie entered the special election to fill the vacant Ward 5 seat.

Kenyan McDuffie won the special election, receiving 43 percent of the votes.

Kenyan McDuffie announced his candidacy for Attorney General for the District of Columbia and said that he would not run to represent Ward 5 for another term.

Kenyan McDuffie's qualifications were challenged by candidate Bruce Spiva, who argued that the legislation required that the attorney general was "actively engaged" as an attorney for five years and that service on the Council was not adequate.

In June 2022, Kenyan McDuffie changed his registration to independent and picked up paperwork to file to run as a candidate for one of the at-large seats on the Council held by incumbents Elissa Silverman and Anita Bonds.

Kenyan McDuffie was elected in November 2022, finishing behind Bonds but ahead of Silverman.

Kenyan McDuffie's bill requires campaigns to report all fundraising data online for the Office of Campaign Finance to publish publicly, mandates campaign finance training for candidates, expands the range of penalties for violations, and restricts money order donations to $100.

In 2019, Kenyan McDuffie initially questioned the sole source award of the DC Lottery contract, valued at $215million.

Kenyan McDuffie later reversed his position and the contract was narrowly approved.

Kenyan McDuffie passed the innovative Neighborhood Engagement Achieves Results Act, which reforms the District's criminal justice system by incorporating behavioral and mental health professionals to perform tasks that previously fell to law enforcement officers.

In 2021, Kenyan McDuffie introduced legislation to create a Task Force to research and develop reparation proposals for African American descendants of slavery.