Member, District 9
About Barbara Lee
From Oakland, CA; born in El Paso, TX, July 16,
1946; education: graduated, San Fernando High School; B.A., Mills
College, 1973; MSW, University of California, Berkeley, 1975;
congressional aide and public servant; senior advisor and chief of staff
to Congressman Ronald V. Dellums in Washington, DC, and Oakland, CA,
1975-87; California State Assembly, 1990-96; California State Senate,
1996-98; Assembly committees: Housing and Land Use; Appropriations;
Business and Professions; Industrial Relations; Judiciary; Revenue and
Taxation; board member, California State Coastal Conservancy, District
Export Council, and California Defense Conversion Council; committees:
Financial Services;
International Relations; elected to the 105th Congress on April 7, 1998,
by special election, to fill the remaining term of retiring
Representative Ronald V. Dellums; reelected to each
succeeding Congress.