Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.) has three legislative assistants in his office, all of whom have advanced degrees. Two of them have two law degrees each.
Suozzi's office stands out as unusually educated. The congressman's office ranks first among all offices in the House and Senate as the most educated, based on a metric that LegiStorm has devised.
Suozzi, a lawyer himself, is followed by Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.).
Rep. Mike Ezell's (R-Miss.) office ranks last for most-educated staff.
The most-educated offices list is dominated by liberals, with Democrats holding all 10 of the top positions. Meanwhile, Republican offices tend to focus more on hiring staff with military and other experience over elite college degrees.
LegiStorm ranks best-educated offices by calculating an average education score for each office's current staff. The score is based on a combination of the level of education attained and the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rank of the institutions attended.
LegiStorm's education index uses publicly available formal education records that can be skewed by numerous factors, including geographic distribution of high-ranked schools and composition of entry-level and senior-level staff.
