Topic: Carla Katz

Carla A. Katz (born 1959) served as president of Local 1034 of the Communications Workers of America from 1999 until 2008, representing 16,000 public and private sector workers in the state of New Jersey. Revelations of a romantic relationship with New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine raised questions of whether the relationship improperly influenced contract negotiations between Katz's union and the state of New Jersey.

Katz was born to Arnold and Angelina Katz and was raised in Paterson, New Jersey with her brother Allan and sister Genise. Arnold Katz worked as a factory laborer in Paterson before getting a sales job and relocating his family to Burlington County. He later served as mayor of Edgewater Park in 1982 and 1983.

After finishing high school, Katz attended Burlington County College, Boston University, and Johns Hopkins University, before eventually obtaining a bachelor's degree in labor studies from Rutgers University in 1981. She also received a master's degree from Rutgers. A year after graduating from Rutgers, she started as an organizer for the CWA, becoming president of Local 1034 in 1999. She married Lawrence McKim, an artist and high school teacher, and they settled in Alexandria Township, New Jersey, where they raised two children, Montana and Cooper. Katz and McKim divorced in 2001.