Katie Britt biography: 13 things about Alabama’s Junior Miss 2000

Katie Elizabeth Boyd Britt is an American politician and attorney born in Enterprise, Alabama, United States to Julian Boyd and Debra Boyd. Julian owned a hardware store in Enterprise while Debra is a former beauty queen and dance teacher.

Britt is the eldest of Julian and Debra’s four daughters. Britt and Wesley Britt have two children together.

Representing Coffee County, Katie won Alabama’s Junior Miss 2000. Representing Alabama, she was first runner-up to America’s Junior Miss 2000 Jesika Henderson of Utah.

Katie is 5’4″ tall. Here are 13 more things about her:

1. She is Little Miss Enterprise 1988 and Little Miss National Peanut Festival 1989.
2. In 2000, she graduated from Enterprise High School in Enterprise. She was one of the 19 valedictorians.
3. In May 2004, she graduated from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama with a bachelor’s degree in political science and became the deputy press secretary of Richard Shelby, the U.S. senator from Alabama from January 3, 1987 to January 3, 2023.
4. In 2007, she left Shelby’s staff and became as a special assistant to University of Alabama president Robert Witt.
5. In 2008, she and Wesley got married.
6. In 2013, she graduated from the University of Alabama School of Law with a Juris Doctor and joined Johnston Barton Proctor & Rose LLP in Birmingham, Alabama.
7. In March 2014, Johnston Barton Proctor & Rose LLP shut down so she and 17 other employees joined Butler Snow LLP‘s office in Birmingham.
8. In November 2015, she joined Shelby’s staff as the deputy campaign manager and communications director of is reelection campaign.
9. In 2016, Shelby named her his chief of staff.
10. On January 2, 2019, she became the president and chief executive officer of the Business Council of Alabama. In June 2021, she resigned from the positions.
11. On November 8, 2022, she won the U.S. general election as the U.S. senator from Alabama, making her the first woman to be elected to the position.
12. On January 3, 2023, she assumed office as the U.S. senator from Alabama.
13. On February 2, 2024, she turned 42. In the “Saturday Night Live” episode on March 9, 2024, Scarlet Johansson played her in a skit.