Candidate · State Assembly, District 56
Lisa Calderon
What this job does: Your district's vote in the 80-member California State Assembly. Members write and vote on state laws and the state budget, and with the Senate can place measures such as Props. 1, 2, 4, 5 and 43 on the ballot. A term is two years.
- Holds this seat now
- Yes
- Office
- Assemblymember, District 56 (elected 2020 in the former 57th District); Chair, Assembly Insurance Committee
- Occupation
- Assembly Member/Mom (ballot designation)
- Lives in
- Whittier
Background
- Attended California State University, Sacramento. source: calderon.asmdc.org
- Worked as a legislative aide under Assembly Speaker Willie Brown and later worked for an electric utility company. source: calderon.asmdc.org
- Elected to the Assembly in November 2020; took the oath as Assemblymember for the 57th District in December 2020, which became the 56th District after redistricting. source: a56.asmdc.org
- Chairs the Assembly Committee on Insurance and serves as a commissioner on the California Commission on the Status of Women and Girls. source: calderon.asmdc.org
- Born and raised in the Central Valley; has lived in Whittier for more than 30 years. source: calderon.asmdc.org
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