Karen Handel Politician

Karen C. Handel (born April 18, 1962) is an American politician, author, and former senior vice president for public policy at Susan G. Komen for the Cure. She served as Secretary of State of Georgia from 2007 until January 2010, when she resigned to run, unsuccessfully, for the Republican Party nomination for Governor of Georgia. In 2011, Handel was appointed senior vice president of public policy at Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a leading charity in the cause of fighting breast cancer, but resigned on February 7, 2012, following the foundation's controversial decisions to end, and then restore, funding for Planned Parenthood. Karen Handel was a candidate for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in 2014 but lost in the May 20, 2014 Republican primary, coming in third.