Biography
Representative from California; born in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles County, Calif., June 12, 1941; graduated from Ramona Convent Secondary School, Alhambra, Calif., 1959; B.A., California State University, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965; community relations and nonprofit executive; member of the California state assembly, 1987-1992; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Third and to the fourteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1993-January 3, 2023); was not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Eighteenth Congress in 2022.
Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress