Barbara Mikulski
Sen. Barbara Mikulski may have retired from Congress, but the tenacious politician isn’t planning to stop imparting her knowledge to younger minds. This morning, Johns Hopkins University announced she’s joining their faculty as the newest Homewood Professor.
Starting next Tuesday, Mikulski, 80, will be teaching public policy in the school’s political science department. She’ll also be acting as a presidential advisor to JHU president Ronald J. Daniels, holding lectures, seminars and symposia and bringing national leaders to speak on campus, according to the university.
Mikulski began her career as a social worker in Baltimore and played a prominent role as an activist in helping to stop developers’ plans to build a major interstate through the harbor neighborhoods. Running off that momentum, she was elected to City Council in 1971, and after one term made the jump to Congress by winning the election for a seat vacated by Paul Sarbanes. After five terms, she was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1985.
