Jackie Speier
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Karen Lorraine Jacqueline Speier (born May 14, 1950) is an American politician who currently serves as a U.S. Representative for California's 14th congressional district, serving in Congress since 2008.
She is a member of the Democratic Party.
The district, numbered as the 12th District from 2008 to 2013, includes the northern two-thirds of San Mateo County and the southwest quarter of San Francisco.
She represents much of the territory that had been represented by her political mentor, Leo Ryan.
In 1978, while working as his aide, Speier survived five gunshot wounds she received when Ryan was assassinated during the Jonestown massacre.Speier was a member of the California State Senate, representing parts of San Francisco and San Mateo counties.
On April 8, 2008, she won the special election for the vacated United States House of Representatives seat of the late Congressman Tom Lantos.A Caltrain Express locomotive is named in her honor.
Early life and education
Speier was born in 1950 in San Francisco, and grew up in an apolitical family, the daughter of Nancy (née Kanchelian) and Manfred "Fred" Speier (German: [ˈʃpaɪ̯ɐ]). Her mother, who was born in Fresno of Armenian descent, lost most of her extended family in the Armenian genocide, while her father was an immigrant from Germany. He was the son of a Jewish father and a Catholic mother. Speier took Jacqueline as her confirmation name after Jackie Kennedy. She is a graduate of Mercy High School in Burlingame. She earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Davis, and a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1976.
Political career
Speier's political career began with an ineffective attempt to fill the void left by Ryan's death (the position she now has). G. W. "Joe" Holsinger, a former Ryan staffer, lost the Democratic primary to another, G. W. "Joe" Holsinger. Bill Royer, the Republican nominee who served the remainder of the term before losing to Tom Lantos, lost the special election to him.
Speier won her first election in 1980, defeating a 20-year incumbent. She was the youngest person elected to the board at the time. She was first elected in 1984 and then elected chairwoman.
Speier ran for the California State Assembly in 1986, midway through her second term on the Board of Supervisors. She gained by a few hundred votes. She was reelected four times, the first time as the nominee of both the Democratic and Republican parties.
Speier was refused reelection to the Assembly in 1996 by state law, but she was elected to the California State Senate in 1998. She was elected to a second term in 2002 with 78.2% of the vote. Speier, as a state senator, was instrumental in securing $127 million to begin the "Baby Bullet" express service for Caltrain, for which the commuter rail corporation hired a new locomotive (no). (925) after her. Speier also focuses on consumer rights. In 2006, she was booted out of the California State Senate. She served as assistant president pro tempore of the State Senate during her last term.
Speier ran in the Democratic primary for lieutenant governor of California against insurance commissioner John Garamendi and state senator Liz Figueroa in 2006. Garamendi won with 46.5 percent of the vote in June 6's election. Speier received 39.7% and Figueroa the remaining 17.8%.