Frank M. Kratovil, Jr. was elected to Congress from Maryland’s First Congressional District in November 2008 after serving six years as the elected State’s Attorney for Queen Anne’s County.
A career prosecutor prior to his election to Congress, Frank Kratovil received a law degree from the University of Baltimore in 1994 after completing his undergraduate work at Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College). Upon graduation from law school, Frank accepted an appointment as a judicial law clerk for the Circuit Court of Prince George's County and then accepted a position as an Assistant State's Attorney in Prince George's County. In 1997 Frank was appointed Assistant State's Attorney in Queen Anne's County, and until 2001 served as the County's only full-time prosecutor and community prosecutor. In 2003, at the age of 34, he was elected State's Attorney for Queen Anne's County, becoming one of the youngest State's Attorneys in Maryland.
In June of 2005 Frank was elected by his colleagues as President of the Maryland State's Attorney's Association, and in the same year Governor Robert Ehrlich appointed Frank to the Maryland State Board of Victim Services. In July of 2006 the Court of Appeals of Maryland appointed him to the Court of Appeal's Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure.
Since his election to Congress, Frank Kratovil has secured appointments to the Agriculture Committee, the Natural Resources Committee, and the House Armed Services Committee. He has also joined the Blue Dog Coalition of fiscally conservative Democrats, with whom he is working to restore fiscal discipline to Washington. His first official act in Congress was to become an original co-sponsor of a bill to freeze Congressional pay.
Frank commutes home every night to Stevensville, where he lives with his wife Kimberly, their four sons Frankie, Jackson, Cole and Nate, and daughter Ayden. He serves on the Board of Special Olympics Maryland, the Mental Health Association of Maryland, and the Foundation for Community Partnerships. The Kratovils are members of Christ Episcopal Church in Stevensville.