Biography
Representative from California; born in San Mateo, San Mateo County, Calif., December 21, 1947; graduated from Gunn High School, Palo Alto, Calif., 1966; B.A., Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., 1970; J.D., Santa Clara University School of Law, Santa Clara, Calif., 1975; lawyer, private practice; faculty, Santa Clara University School of Law, Santa Clara, Calif., 1978-1980; staff, United States Representative William Donlon (Don) Edwards of California, 1970-1978; Santa Clara County (Calif.) board of supervisors, 1980-1994; executive director, Community Housing Developers; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Fourth and to the fourteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1995-present); one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 2009 to conduct the impeachment proceedings of Samuel B. Kent, judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas; one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 2010 to conduct the impeachment proceedings of G. Thomas Porteous, Jr., judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana; one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 2020 to conduct the impeachment proceedings of Donald J. Trump, President of the United States; chair, Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (One Hundred Eleventh Congress); chair, Committee on House Administration (One Hundred Sixteenth and One Hundred Seventeenth Congresses); chair, Joint Committee on Printing (One Hundred Sixteenth Congress); chair, Joint Committee on the Library (One Hundred Seventeenth Congress).
Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress