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Keith Maurice Ellison (born August 4, 1963) has been the U.S. Representative for since 2007. He is a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), the Minnesota state Democratic Party affiliate. The district centers on Minneapolis and surrounding suburbs. Ellison is a co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and a Chief Deputy Whip, also notably serving in the House Committee on Financial Services. Ellison is the first Muslim to be elected to Congress. He is also the first African American elected to the House from Minnesota. ==Early life, education, and career== Keith Ellison, the third of five sons, was born and raised Roman Catholic〔("Keith: The value system that's behind my candidacy" ) July 19, 2006. Star Tribune. Accessed January 3, 2007.〕 in Detroit, Michigan, by his parents Leonard Ellison, a social worker and a psychiatrist, and Clida (Martinez) Ellison.〔〔 〕 Ellison and three of his brothers became lawyers; his other brother became a doctor. One of Ellison's brothers is also the pastor of the Baptist "Church of the New Covenant" in Detroit.〔 Ellison's youth was influenced by the involvement of his family in the civil rights movement, including his grandfather's work as a member of the NAACP in Louisiana.〔 Ellison graduated in 1981 from the University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy, where he was active in sports and a senator in the student government.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.uofdjesuit.org/ )〕 At age 19, while attending Wayne State University in Detroit, Ellison converted from Catholicism to Islam, later giving the following explanation: "I can't claim that I was the most observant Catholic at the time (my conversion ). I had begun to really look around and ask myself about the social circumstances of the country, issues of justice, issues of change. When I looked at my spiritual life, and I looked at what might inform social change, justice in society... I found Islam." After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in economics in 1987, Ellison married his high-school sweetheart〔 and moved to Minneapolis to attend the University of Minnesota Law School. While there, he wrote several articles in support of Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam. Ellison graduated with a Juris Doctor in 1990.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title =Keith Ellison (DFL) 58B )Retrieved on September 25, 2009〕 Ellison and his former wife Kim, a high-school mathematics teacher,〔(Ellison official campaign biography ). Retrieved September 24, 2009.〕 had four children between 1989 and 1997: a daughter, Amirah, and three sons, Jeremiah, Elijah, and Isaiah.〔 Kim Ellison is not Muslim, but their four children have been raised in that faith.〔("Ellison may become the first Muslim in US Congress" ) September 13, 2006. American Muslim Perspective Online Magazine. Retrieved January 4, 2007.〕 During Ellison's 2006 campaign, Kim Ellison revealed that she had been living with moderate multiple sclerosis for several years.〔(Late campaign reports were her doing, Ellison's wife says ) July 15, 2006. Star Tribune. Accessed December 26, 2013.〕 Ellison filed for a legal separation from Kim in 2010,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2010/06/keith_ellison_f.php )〕 and their divorce was finalized on May 2, 2012. After law school, Ellison worked for three years at the firm of Lindquist & Vennum, where he was a litigator specializing in civil rights, employment, and criminal defense law.〔〔 Ellison then became executive director of the nonprofit Legal Rights Center in Minneapolis, which specializes in the defense of indigent clients.〔 Upon leaving the Legal Rights Center, Ellison entered private practice with the law firm Hassan & Reed Ltd, specializing in trial practice. Ellison has also been regularly involved in community service. He served as the unpaid host of a public affairs talk program at KMOJ radio,〔 and has also often volunteered as a track coach for several organizations, working with youth between the ages of 5 and 18. He said, "It’s a great community-building device because it’s for all ages and all genders. Everyone can find a way to fit in."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Keith Ellison」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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