Karen A. Ritter (born February 28, 1953) is a former American government official.
[1][2][3] Born in Shirley, Massachusetts on February 28, 1953, Ritter graduated from L. E. Dieruff High School in 1971 and earned her paralegal certificate from Northampton Community College in 1978.
[4] Employed as a manager of a title insurance agency, Ritter was elected to a seat on the Allentown City Council in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and served in that capacity from 1982 to 1986.
[6] A member of the Lehigh Valley Democratic Association, the Lehigh Valley Young Democrats and the Pennsylvania Federation of Democratic Women, she ran for a seat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1986,[7] was elected for its 1987 term, and was then reelected to serve three additional, consecutive terms.
A member of the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee from 1989 to 1994, she was also appointed to the Select Committee on Domestic Violence and Rape Crisis Services in Pennsylvania in 1990.