What is Gabrielle Giffords?
{{BLP sources|date=August 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Gabrielle Giffords | image = Gabrielle Giffords by Gage Skidmore 4.jpg | caption = Giffords in 2019 | state = [[Arizona]] | district = [[Arizona's 8th congressional district|8th]] | party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] | term_start = January 3, 2007 | term_end = January 25, 2012 | predecessor= [[Jim Kolbe]] | successor = [[Ron Barber]] | state_senate2 = Arizona | district2 = 28th | term_start2 = January 8, 2003 | term_end2 = December 1, 2005 | predecessor2 = [[Randall Gnant]] | successor2 = [[Paula Aboud]] | state_house3 = Arizona | district3 = 13th | term_start3 = January 1, 2001 | term_end3 = January 8, 2003 | predecessor3 = Andy Nichols | successor3 = [[Steve Gallardo]] | birth_name = Gabrielle Dee Giffords | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1970|6|8|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[Tucson, Arizona]] | alma_mater = [[Cornell University]] {{small|([[Master of Urban Planning|M.U.P.]])}}<br>[[Scripps College]] {{small|(B.A.)}} | residence = Tucson, Arizona | spouse = [[Mark Kelly]] (m. 2007) | profession = Politician; [[Businesswoman]] | signature = Signature of Gabrielle Giffords.jpg | signature_alt = Gabrielle Giffords }} '''Gabrielle Giffords''' is an [[Americans|American]] [[politician]]. She was born on June 8, 1970.<ref>{{cite web|title=Gabrielle Giffords|publisher=Biography.com|url=http://www.biography.com/articles/Gabrielle-Giffords-17113540|accessdate=January 26, 2011|archive-date=January 17, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110117053640/http://www.biography.com/articles/Gabrielle-Giffords-17113540|url-status=dead}}</ref> She is a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] member of the [[United States House of Representatives]]. She was badly [[injury|injured]] January 8, 2011, [[2011 Tucson shooting|during a shooting]] in [[Tucson, Arizona]] after being shot in the head at very close range, but survived. She was holding a meeting around the parking lot of a [[supermarket]] when the shooting happened.