Guide to New Legislators 2017 Edition Contents Locating Your Senate and Assembly Districts 1. Go to http://www.legislature.ca.gov/ 2. Look for the Blue Box on the right side of the screen titled “Find My District” 3. Click on Search by Address. (This web page will be updated on December 3, 2012 to reflect new Districts. If you have this tool saved in your web browser it will have a new URL after this date.) 4. Enter your Street, City and Zip into the fields and click Find. New Senator Biographies .. 3 District 3, Senator Bill Dodd………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….… 3 District 9, Senator Nancy Skinner…………………………...……………………………………………………………………………….3 District 11, Senator Scott Wiener…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….4 District 21 - Senator Scott Wilk……………………………..………………………………………………………………………………..4 District 25, Senator Anthony Portantino…………………………….…………………………………………………………………..5 District 27, Senator Henry Stern.…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….5 District 29, Senator Josh Newman……………………………………………………………………………………………….…….……5 District 35, Senator Steven Bradford……………………………………………………………………………………………………….6 District 39, Senator Toni Atkins….……………………………………………………………………………………………………………6 New Assembly member Biographies District 4, Assembly member Cecila Aguiar-Curry….……………………………………………………………………………….7 District 6, Assembly member Kevin Kiley……….……………………………………………………………………………………….7 District 12, Assembly member Heath Flora…..………………………….……………………………………………………….…….8 District 14, Assembly member Tim Grayson……………………………………………………………………………………..…....8 District 24, Assembly member Marc Berman………………………………………………………………………………………….9 1 District 27, Assembly member Ash Kalra……………………………………………………………………………………………..….9 District 30, Assembly member Anna Caballero.……………………………………………………………………..………………9 District 34 Assembly member Vince Fong……..……………..………………………………………………………………………10 District 35, Assembly member Jordan Cunningham……………………………………………………………………………..10 District 37, Assembly member S. Monique Limón…………………………………………………………………………………11 District 38, Assembly member Dante Acosta..………………………………………………………………………….…………..11 District 39 - Senator Raul Bocanegra……………………………………………………………………………………………….…….11 District 43, Assembly member Laura Friedman.…………………………………………………………………………………….12 District 47, Assembly member Eloise Gomez Reyes………………………………………………………………………………12 District 48, Assembly member Blanca Rubio…………………………………………………………………………………………13 District 55, Assembly member Philip Chen……………………………………………………………………………………………13 District 60, Assembly member Sabrina Cervantes…………………………………………………………………………………14 District 68, Assembly member Steven Choi…………………………………………………………………………………………..14 District 71, Assembly member Randy Voepel…………………………………………………………………………………………14 District 78, Assembly member Todd Gloria……..…………………………………………………………………………………….15 Conducting Meet and Greet Meetings . ... Alliance Fact Sheet ..18 2 New Senator Biographies ** All photos and bio’s in this document are from the official’s websites and other materials. District 3 Senator Bill Dodd During his public service Bill has built a reputation for delivering solutions on issues affecting real people. He has led the way on legislation to deal with gender pay equity, worked to designate the Berryessa Snow Mountain area as a national monument, co-wrote the law creating an Earned Income Tax Credit in California, and helped secure $400 million dollars for career technical education throughout the state. Bill and his wife Mary have five grown children and four grandchildren. His legislative priorities include education, ethics, agriculture, water, seniors and environmental protections. District 9 Senator Nancy Skinner A social justice advocate, energy and climate change trailblazer, and accomplished legislator, Nancy Skinner recently completed three terms in the State Assembly representing the East Bay cities along the I-80 corridor from Hercules to Oakland. Skinner currently teaches public policy at UC Berkeley, focused on policy interventions to address poverty and income inequality. She also serves as a Senior Policy fellow at UC Davis’s Energy and Transportation Institutes. In the Assembly, Skinner served as Chair of three key committees: Budget, Rules and Natural Resources. As Budget Chair she oversaw the largest funding boost to childcare and preschool in over a decade; increased state support to our State University and UC systems, cut the number of juveniles incarcerated in state facilities by half, and established a new dedicated fund to reduce prison recidivism. Nancy lives in Berkeley with her husband and they have one adult daughter. Her legislative priorities include housing and homelessness, universal early education, criminal justice reform, income inequality and environmental protection. 3 District 11 Senator Scott Wiener Scott Wiener is a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and serves on the Board’s Land Use and Economic Development Committee and Budget and Finance Committee. Before being elected to the Board of Supervisors in 2010, Wiener served as a Deputy City Attorney in the San Francisco City Attorney's Office, where he represented San Francisco in court (ranging from trial courts to the United States Supreme Court) and supervised a team of trial attorneys. Wiener received a bachelor’s degree from Duke University and a law degree from Harvard Law School. He spent a year in Chile on a Fulbright Scholarship doing historical research. Wiener has lived in the Castro neighborhood for nearly 20 years. His legislative priorities include housing, transportation, the environment, health and education. District 21 Senator Scott Wilk Currently, Scott serves as the State Assemblyman for California’s 38th State Assembly District. Scott’s career spans both the private and public sector. In addition to his tenure in the California State Assembly, Scott served six years on the College the Canyons Board of Trustees. He also spent six years as Chief of Staff to California Assembly Members Tom McClintock and Paula Boland. Additionally, in 1989 Scott was appointed by Palmdale Mayor Pete Knight to be a trustee on the Palmdale Library Board. Scott and his wife Vanessa reside in Santa Clarita, and have two adult children Alison and Scott Jr. His legislative priorities include strengthening the economy, bringing jobs to the High Desert, water, education, law enforcement and human trafficking and child abuse prevention. 4 District 25 Senator Anthony Portantino Former Mayor and Assembly member Anthony Portantino is a well- respected community leader in the San Gabriel Valley. His success at banning the “open carry” of handguns on Main Street California, in the face of angry and significant opposition from the powerful gun lobby, and his reform efforts in Sacramento, exemplify leadership and Anthony’s willingness to take on the tough issues, and even his own party, to promote a better and safer California. Anthony has a wife and two daughters. His legislative priorities include education, economic growth, mental health, civil rights, fiscal accountability and foster care. District 27 Henry Stern Henry Stern is the senior policy advisor to California State Senator Fran Pavley. While serving in the Senate, Henry has helped Senator Pavley pass common sense policies to improve the quality of life and economic sustainability of the 27th District and California. Together, they have advanced bipartisan measures to balance the budget, respond to the drought, revitalize our education system, ensure safer communities, and update California’s energy policy for the 21st century. His legislative priorities include environmental protections, the economy, education and safe communities. District 29 Senator Josh Newman I’m the founder and Executive Director of ArmedForce2Workforce, a non-profit organization founded in November 2012 (and filed with the California Secretary of State in March of 2013) to assist young veterans returning to the Orange County/Greater Los Angeles area in the pursuit of rewarding, career-oriented employment upon completion of their military service and return or relocation to Southern California. My wife Darcy is a native of Orange County and works as an investment analyst at a locally based Fortune 500 insurance company. We live in Fullerton with our daughter and our three weird but likeable rescue Chihuahuas. My legislative priorities include school finance, jobs creation and public safety. 5 District 35 Senator Steven Bradford I made history when I became the first African American elected to the Gardena City Council. Over the 12 years that I served on the City Council, I presided over robust job and economic growth, along with a balanced budget for the city. I was elected to the 51st Assembly District in a Special Election, reelected in 2010, and reelected again, but this time to the newly created 62nd District in 2012. In the State Legislature, I also dedicated my time to environmental justice as it relates to commerce. As Chair of the Committee on Utilities & Commerce, I authored legislation to promote renewable, clean energy and to protect and enhance local neighborhood security. I also spearheaded numerous pieces of legislation ranging from public safety and civil rights with to protecting the environment. Senator Bradford’s legislative priorities include homelessness, neighborhood security, healthcare, immigrant rights and education. District 39 Senator Toni Atkins Dedicated to public service, Toni Atkins was elected San Diego’s first ever Speaker of the State Assembly. She first began serving our