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Assembly District 1 CalChiro Recommendation: Brian Dahle (R) Republican Leader Brian Dahle, born in Redding, is a third-generation wheat farmer. Until his election to the Assembly in 2012, he served four terms on the Lassen County Board of Supervisors. Dahle's Lassen County farm was purchased by his grandparents in the 1940s and has remained in the family since then. When his parents retired, he and his wife, Megan, purchased the farm, which is now over 2,000 acres. They also operate and manage Big Valley Seed and Big Valley Nursery. Megan is a board member of the Big Valley Unified School District. They have three children. Assembly District 2 CalChiro Recommendation: Jim Wood (D) Jim Wood was elected to the Assembly in 2014. Before leaving for the Assembly, he was elected to the Healdsburg City Council in 2006 and served as a former member of the city’s planning commission. A family dentist who has maintained a practice in Cloverdale since 1987, Wood is a nationally recognized expert in forensic dentistry and has worked with law enforcement to solve cold cases. He is also the co-founder of the Healdsburg Green City Committee. He and his wife have one son. Assembly District 3 CalChiro Recommendation: Jim Gallagher (R) James Gallagher, at the time of his election to the Assembly in 2014, was a member of the Sutter County Board of Supervisors where he was first elected in 2008. He is the sixth generation of an Irish immigrant family that settled in south Sutter County in the late 1880s. He is a partner in his family's farming business as well as a practicing attorney, focusing on agricultural law. He and his wife, Janna, reside in Yuba City with their three children. Assembly District 4 CalChiro Recommendation: Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D) Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, at the time of her election to the Assembly in 2016, was the Mayor of Winters. She previously served as the principal at Community Migration and Consulting, a firm specializing in planning and implementing strategic public outreach for government agencies, chaired the Yolo Housing Commission, and was Vice Chair of the Yolo County Water Association, and served as Director of Public Outreach for the Freeport Regional Water Authority. Assembly District 5 CalChiro Recommendation: Frank Bigelow (R) Frank Bigelow, at the time of his election to the Assembly in 2012, was serving as a Madera County Board of Supervisors. At the time of his Assembly election, he also was Vice President of the Ponderosa Telephone Company where he had been working since 1973. His family roots in the area go back to the late 1800s. The family is still involved in cattle ranching through Bigelow Farms. He is a volunteer firefighter who lives in O’Neals with his wife, Barbara, and their three children. Assembly District 6 CalChiro Recommendation: Kevin Kiley (R) Kevin Kiley was a former deputy Attorney General at the CA Department of Justice before his election to the Assembly in 2016. He was raised in Granite Bay, and was the valedictorian of Granite Bay High School. After college, he became an English teacher at Manual Arts High School in South Los Angeles and then attended law school, receiving his law degree from Yale. Assembly District 7 CalChiro Recommendation: Kevin McCarty (D) Kevin McCarty was first elected to the Assembly in 2014. Before his Assembly election, he was elected to the Sacramento City Council in 2004 while he served as a legislative advocate for Early Edge California, formerly known as Preschool California. McCarty grew up in Sacramento, attended American River College, and received a bachelor's degree in political science from CSU Long Beach and a master's degree in public policy and administration from Sacramento State University. He and his wife, Leticia, have twin girls and reside in the Elmhurst neighborhood of Sacramento. Assembly District 8 CalChiro Recommendation: Ken Cooley (D) Ken Cooley was a member of the Rancho Cordova City Council at the time of his election to the Assembly in 2012. He also served as the Principal Consultant to the state Senate Committee on Banking, Finance and Insurance. He received his bachelor’s degree in political science from UC Berkeley and a law degree from McGeorge School of Law. Cooley and his wife, Sydney, live in Rancho Cordova, as do their two grown sons. Assembly District 9 CalChiro Recommendation: Jim Cooper (D) Jim Cooper was a member of the Elk Grove City Council at the time of his election to the Assembly in 2014.He was also a captain in the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department where he served for 30 years. He grew up in Sacramento, is a graduate of the FBI National Academy and West Point Leadership Academy and has a master’s degree in organizational leadership from St. Mary’s College. He is a lifetime member of the CA Narcotics Officers Association. Assembly District 10 CalChiro Recommendation: Marc Levine (D) Marc Levine was a member the San Rafael City Council and an executive with a healthcare information technology startup at the time of his Assembly election in 2012. He earned his bachelor's degree in political science from CSU Northridge and earned a master's degree in National Security Affairs from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. Levine and wife, Wendy, have two children. Assembly District 11 CalChiro Recommendation: Jim Frazier (D) Jim Frazier was serving his first term on the Oakley City Council at the time of his election to the Assembly in 2012. He is the owner of a local general contracting company. He has also served on the Oakley Planning Commission and on the Contra Costa Transportation Authority’s citizens advisory committee. He and his wife, Janet, founded the Stephanie Marie Frazier Memorial Foundation, named after one of their daughters who died in a car accident. The foundation delivers care packages to hospitalized children. They have another surviving daughter. Assembly District 12 CalChiro Recommendation: Heath Flora (R) Heath Flora was Director of International Sales at the Exact Corporation, a family owned business that manufactures products for both nut harvesting and firefighting, at the time of his Assembly election in 2016. He is a trained paramedic and volunteer firefighter of over 15 years and served as a firefighter with the California Department of Forestry. Flora studied Fire Science at Modesto Community College and resides in Modesto. Assembly District 13 CalChiro Recommendation: Susan Eggman (D) Susan Talamantes Eggman was serving her second four-year term on the Stockton City Council prior to her election to the Assembly in 2012. She joined the U.S. Army out of high school and served four years as a medic. After her service, she attended CSU Stanislaus, receiving a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's degree in social work. She worked as a mental health provider and medical social worker before earning a Ph.D. at Portland State University. Eggman and her partner, Renee, live in Stockton's Victory Park neighborhood. Assembly District 14 CalChiro Recommendation: Tim Grayson (D) Tim Grayson was a member of the Concord City Council when he was first elected to the Assembly in 2016. He served as the Redevelopment Agency Chair in 2011 and Vice Mayor in 2013. Grayson is a Critical Response Chaplain with the Concord Police Department and owner of Grayson Construction since 1999. He is a member of the Citizen Corps Community Emergency Response Team and the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce. Grayson holds a bachelor’s degree from Christian Life College in Stockton and was the recipient of the Presidential Citizens Award in 2008 and 2009. Grayson and his wife, Tammy, have two children. Assembly District 16 CalChiro Recommendation: Catharine Baker (R) Catharine Baker worked in Pleasanton as a business attorney at the time of her Assembly election in 2014. She is a California native and received her bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Chicago while overcoming a cancer diagnosis and treatment her senior year. She attended UC Berkeley where she earned a law degree. Baker and her husband, Dan, are the parents of twins. Assembly District 17 CalChiro Recommendation: David Chiu (D) David Chiu, the son of immigrants, was first elected to the Assembly in 2014. At the time of this Assembly election, he was a San Francisco Board of Supervisors representing a district that includes North Beach, Chinatown, Fisherman's Wharf and the Financial District. Prior to his election to the Board, Chiu was a founder and Chief Operating Officer of Grassroots Enterprise, an online communications technology company. He also worked as a criminal prosecutor at the San Francisco District Attorney's Office and as a civil rights attorney at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights. Chiu and his wife, Candace, have one son. Assembly District 18 CalChiro Recommendation: Rob Bonta (D) Rob Bonta, the first Filipino American elected to the California State Legislature, was a member of the Alameda City Council at the time of his election to the Assembly in 2012. He was also a deputy city attorney for the City and County of San Francisco, where he focused on fighting fraud and anti-consumer practices by large corporations. He received his bachelor’s degree and law degree from Yale. He and his wife, Mialisa, have three children. Assembly District 19 CalChiro Recommendation: Phil Ting (D) Phil Ting was the San Francisco Assessor-Recorder at the time of his election to the Assembly in 2012. Prior to this appointment, Ting served as the Executive Director of the Asian Law Caucus, an Asian-Pacific Islander civil rights organization. He has degrees from UC Berkeley and Harvard University, and lives in San Francisco’s Sunset District with his wife, Susan, and their two daughters.