Member of Congress Judy Chu
Judy Chu: Member of Congress
Judy Chu was elected to Congress in 2009, in a special election to replace Hilda Soliz in California's 32nd Congressional district when Hilda Soliz was confirmed as President Obama's Secretary of Labor. She has subsequently been re-elected twice and currently serves as the representative from her redistricted area known as Congressional district 27. The daughter of immigrants, Judy Chu has lived in Los Angeles and the San Francisco area and has been involved in education and politics for most of her adult life. First elected a member of her local school board in 1985, she later became a member of the city council...
In 1994 and 1998 she ran for the California State Assembly but lost. Then in 2001, during a special election Judy Chu as elected to the State Assembly where she won re-election in 2002 and 2004. In 2006, unable to run again for the State Assembly, Chu was elected to the State Board of Equalization where she remained until 2009, when an opening for the U.S. Congress occurred. She then ran and was elected in a special election for the 32nd Congressional District, later redistricted into the 27th. It is her experience in academics that I believe really exemplifies her commitment to representing the people of California. Judy Chu has a B.A. In
mathematics and a PhD in
Psychology, was a member of the Garvey School District in Rosemead for a number of years as well as serving as a member of the faculty at the Los Angeles Community College District for two decades. One of her first acts as a Congresswoman was to obtain a $250,000 grant to repair the heating and air conditioning system at the Mark Keppel High School in her…
