Van Hollen, Chris, 1959-

Christopher J. Van Hollen Jr. (born January 10, 1959) is an American attorney and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the U.S. Representative for Maryland's 8th congressional district from 2003 to 2017 and has served as U.S. Senator from Maryland since 2017.

Born in Karachi, Pakistan to American parents, he spent parts of his early life in Pakistan, Turkey, India, and Sri Lanka. He returned to the United States for his junior year of high school, and attended Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts before graduating from the Kodaikanal International School in southern India. Van Hollen went on to earn a B.A. from Swarthmore College, an M.P.P. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. Van Hollen worked as a legislative assistant for defense and foreign policy to U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, a Republican from Maryland, from 1985 to 1987. He was also a staff member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (1987–1989), and a legislative advisor for federal affairs to Maryland Governor William Donald Schaefer (1989–1991). He was admitted to the Maryland bar in 1990, and joined the law firm of Arent Fox.

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