Claudia Tenney is the Republican and Conservative incumbent in NY-24, an attorney, small-business owner and former New York State Assembly member. She was first elected to the House in 2016, lost the seat in 2018, and returned after winning in 2020. She serves on the Ways and Means, Intelligence, and Science, Space, and Technology committees.[1][2][3]
Tenney was born in New Hartford, New York, in 1961, the daughter of the late John R. Tenney, a justice of the New York Supreme Court in the Fifth Judicial District from 1969 through 2003. She earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Colgate University in 1983 and a J.D. from the University of Cincinnati (Taft College of Law) in 1987.[1][2] Her office says she is admitted to the bar in New York, Connecticut and Florida and to all federal courts.[2]
She worked as an attorney, including as a partner at the Utica-area firm Groben, Gilroy, Oster, and Saunders and later in her own private practice in Clinton, New York. In 1997 she established Tenney Media Group and served as its publisher and corporate counsel; the company published community newspapers founded by her family, a division that was sold to Gannett in 2004.[2] Tenney also co-owned and served as legal counsel to Mid-York Press, Inc., a commercial printing and manufacturing firm in Sherburne started by her grandfather in 1946.[2][1]
Tenney was first elected to the New York State Assembly on November 2, 2010, and served from 2011 to 2016. She was first elected to the U.S. House on November 8, 2016, and served on the Financial Services Committee in the 115th Congress. She lost the seat in 2018 to Anthony Brindisi and was elected again in November 2020.[2][1]
In the 119th Congress, Tenney serves on the House Committee on Ways and Means, with seats on its Health and Trade subcommittees, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, where she sits on the Energy subcommittee. According to her office, she is the mother of a U.S. Naval Academy graduate who is an active-duty Major in the U.S. Marine Corps.[2][3][1]
Researched from the cited sources on 2026-10-21.
