Former Member, Aging and Long-Term Care Committee, California State Senate

Former Vice Chair, Appropriations Committee, California State Assembly

Former Member, Business, Professions, and Economic Development Committee, California State Senate

Former Member, Environmental Quality Committee, California State Senate

Former Vice Chair, Health Committee, California State Assembly

Appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Former Member, Historic California Performance Review Commission

Former Member, Joint Committee on Rules, California State Senate

Former Member, Legislative Ethics Committee, California State Senate

Former Member, Little Hoover Commission, California State Assembly

Former Member, Manufactured Home Communities Committee, California State Senate

Former Member, Passenger Rail Committee, California State Senate

Founding Chair, Republican Women’s Caucus, California State Assembly

Former Member, Select Committee on Defense and Aerospace, California State Senate

Former Member, Subcommittee on California's Innovation, Technology and LIfe Sciences Economy, California State Senate

Former Member, Transportation and Housing Committee, California State Senate

Former Member, Women and Inequality-Strategies to Promote Opportunity Committee, California State Senate

Vice Chair, Appropriations

Vice Chair, Environmental Quality

Member, Housing

Member, Insurance

Member, Joint Committee on Emergency Management

Member, Joint Committee on the Legislative Budget

Member, Rules

Member, Select Committee on Career Technology and the New Economy

Member, Select Committee on the Social Determinants of Children's Well-Being

Member, Select Committee on Women, Work and Families

Member, Student Success

Vice Chair, Transportation

Favorite Quote:

"Never, never, never give up." --Winston Churchill

— Number of Grandchildren:

• 4

Spouse's Occupation:

Architect