Katrina Swett Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Early life, education and career== Swett is a first-generation American. Her father, the congressman [[Tom Lantos]] (D-CA), a [[Holocaust survivor|survivor]] of the [[Holocaust]], and her mother, Annette Tillemann Lantos, came to the United States from [[Hungary]] after [[World War II]]. Katrina Swett has a sister, Annette. She skipped high school, entered college at 14, and transferred to Yale where her older sister Annette was a student. She earned a degree in [[political science]] there in 1974 at 18, and her [[Juris Doctor]] in 1976 from the [[University of California]], [[Hastings College of Law]].<ref>{{cite web |accessdate=2012-04-29 |url=http://www.nec.edu/about-nec/trustees/trustee-biographies |title=Trustee Biographies — New England College |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015142553/http://www.nec.edu/about-nec/trustees/trustee-biographies |archive-date=2012-10-15 |url-status=dead }}</ref> At 21, she joined the staff of then [[U.S. Senator]] [[Joe Biden]]'s [[Senate Judiciary Committee]].<ref name=Beach_1991>{{cite news |accessdate=2012-04-29 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2209&dat=19910106&id=guZRAAAAIBAJ&pg=6986,701606 |pages=A1, A4 |date=January 6, 1991 |newspaper=[[The Telegraph (Nashua)|The Telegraph]] |location=[[Nashua, New Hampshire]] |volume=5 |issue=41 |first=Pendleton |last=Beach |title=Lantos-Swett seemingly does it all}}</ref> In 2006, she earned her [[Ph.D.]] in [[history]] with a focus on [[Human Rights]] and [[United States Foreign Policy]] from the [[University of Southern Denmark]].<ref name="swettforsenate.com" /> She is the wife of Ambassador and former Congressman [[Richard Swett]], vice president of Swett Associates, Inc., a consulting firm.<ref name="aboutswett">{{Cite web|url=http://www.swettassociates.com/aboutus.htm|title=About Us|work=Swett Associates official web site|access-date=2007-06-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070322224433/http://www.swettassociates.com/aboutus.htm|archive-date=2007-03-22|url-status=dead}}</ref> Swett met Richard Swett at Yale, where she became a member of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]], largely through her interactions with [[Jeffrey R. Holland]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.deseret.com/faith|title=Faith β Deseret News|website=www.deseret.com|accessdate=Oct 4, 2019}}</ref> Katrina and Richard married in 1980.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nhpr.org/live-event/spring-music-live-houston-symphonys-subversive-sardonic-shostakovich|title=Spring For Music Live: The Houston Symphony's Subversive, Sardonic Shostakovich|website=www.nhpr.org|accessdate=Oct 4, 2019}}</ref> The couple have seven children and live in [[Bow, New Hampshire]].<ref name="swettforsenate.com">{{cite web |url=http://swettforsenate.com/katrina.asp |title=Katrina Swett for Senate β 2008. (campaign website) |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071114172853/http://swettforsenate.com/katrina.asp |archivedate=2007-11-14 |accessdate=2012-04-29 }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page