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Kenneth McclintockKenneth D. McClintock (born January 19, 1957) is a politician and lawyer from Puerto Rico. He is the current President of the Senate of Puerto Rico and is affiliated with the New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico. Early life McClintock was born in London, England while his father, George D. McClintock, an architect born in Texas, was working for the United States Air Force. His mother, Nvea Hernndez, born in Puerto Rico, is a retired university professor and a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Puerto Rico. Although born in London, McClintock was raised and studied in Puerto Rico. He completed his elementary and high school education in the public education system, studied at the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras, and in 1980 obtained his Juris Doctor degree from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is married to Mara E. Batista. The McClintock-Batista family have a son, Kevin Davison, born in 1995, and a daughter, Stephanie Marie, born in 1997. They live in the municipality of Cidra, Puerto Rico. Political career At the age of 14, McClintock was appointed by President Nixon as delegate to the White House Conference on Youth. His legislative work in Puerto Rico began at the early age of 19 (1977) when, while still a junior at the University of Puerto Rico, he was appointed Staff Director of the Committee on Consumer Affairs of the House of Representatives. After that, he worked as Legislative Advisor to the New Progressive Party's Floor Leader of the House. In 1978, President Carter appointed him to the National Advisory Council of Juvenile Justice and Prevention of Delinquency. In 1984, the Jaycees recognized his achievements by bestowing on him the Outstanding Young Man of the Year in Journalism Award for his weekly columns in the El Mundo daily newspaper. He was the Executive Director of the U.S. Democratic Party, chapter of Puerto Rico, from 1984 to 1988 and has attended all six Democratic Party conventions since 1976 as a delegate or as a staffer. He is a delegate to his seventh Convention and, as a Democratic National Committeeman, will attend his eighth Democratic National Convention in 2004. He was a Municipal Councilman for San Juan from 1990 to 1992 and during his tenure was the author of the municipal ordinance that raised the salaries of Municipal Guards beyond $1,000 USD a month for the first time in Puerto Rican history. In 1992, he was elected the youngest Senator-at-Large for the 12th Legislature. In November 1996 he was the top vote getter among all New Progressive and Popular Democratic parties senatorial candidates. He was the second top vote getter in the November primary ballot and aspires to his third term in 2000. In 1996, President Clinton appointed McClintock as an at large member of the Democratic Platform Committee, where he was instrumental in drafting the platform plank on Puerto Rico. During 1999, he was Chairman of the Council of State Governments, the youngest and first Hispanic in that organization's 67-year history. He has authored over 500 legislative measures during his two terms in the State Legislature of which over 100 have already become law. Since October 1999 he serves as President of the Parliamentary Conference of the Americas, a forum that brings together the parliamentary assemblies of the unitary, federal and federated states, regional parliaments and interparliamentary organizations of the Americas. The Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico hosted the General Assembly of COPA in July 2000. He chairs the most important committee of the Senate of Puerto Rico: the Committee on Government and Federal Affairs, as well as the Joint Committee for the Crdova Congressional Internships. He is also vice-chair and member of several Senate Committees. The Senate Committees he has chaired have filed reports and investigations, which have served as the ground to make radical changes in public policy. The report on the conditions of the companies availed to the tax benefits of Section 936 of the Federal Internal Revenue Code earned for him an interview in ABC's Prime Time Live program and Univision Network. He has testified in diverse hearings of the Congressional Committees, and has been the guest speaker in several universities throughout the United States. He has been interviewed in ABC's Good Morning America, has debated on Fox News Network and has appeared on BBC news programs. His efforts to promote economic equality to Puerto Rico's consumers by stateside corporations were profiled in a Business Week article in 1998. In 1996, he was appointed by Governor Rossell as co-chair of the New Progressive Party's Platform Committee, a position to which he was reappointed by New Progressive Partys gubernatorial candidate Carlos I. Pesquera. Currently, Mr. McClintock presides the Senate of Puerto Rico as President. References - Senator Kenneth D. McClintock, Biographical Notes. Parliamentary Conference of the Americas. (used with permission)
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