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Carol Liu
Assembly Member
44th District, California
Assemblymember Carol Liu (D-La
Cañada Flintridge) represents the 44th Assembly
District, which includes Altadena, Eagle Rock, La Cañada
Flintridge, Pasadena, South Pasadena, Temple City, and parts of
Arcadia, Duarte, Glassell Park, Glendale, Highland Park, and
Monrovia.
Liu’s number one priority is to
make California’s public education system one of the best in the
nation. As Chair of the Assembly Higher Education Committee, she
wants to ensure that all Californians have access to high quality
higher education. In addition to serving as Chair of the Assembly
Higher Education Committee, she is a member of the Assembly
Education Committee. A member of the Budget Committee, Liu
serves on Budget Subcommittee #2, dealing with Education
Finance. She also sits on the Committee to Develop a Master Plan
for Education and is carrying legislation to implement the Master
Plan.
Liu also sits on the Assembly
Committees on Transportation and Governmental Organization. She
is Chair of the Select Committee on Groundwater Quality and
Quantity. She also serves on the Select Committees on Title IX;
Entertainment and the Arts; Asian Trade; Domestic Violence;
Privacy; Language Access; and the Joint Committee on the Arts.
Liu was recently elected Co-Chair
of the Asian Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus and is an active
member of the Women’s Legislative Caucus. She serves on the
Executive Board of the Women’s Leadership Network, a nationwide,
bipartisan coalition of women state legislators. Liu is also a
member of California’s Seismic Safety Commission.
Among key pieces of Liu
legislation signed into law during her first year in office were
bills to expand career and technical education programs at the
high school level, protect foster children, prevent domestic
violence, and create a statewide groundwater quality monitoring
system. In her second year she continued her work to establish
more career and technical education programs and to improve the
foster care system. Her bills enabling seizure of gang member's
ill-gotten gains, protecting patients’ rights in nursing homes
and eliminating unnecessary reports by CalTrans were also signed
into law.
Liu was first elected to public
office in 1992 as a member of the La Cañada Flintridge City
Council where she served for eight years including two as Mayor.
A fifth generation Californian
and the child of an immigrant, Liu was born in Berkeley and
raised in Oakland. She attended public schools and graduated
from San Jose State College in 1963. She earned a lifetime
teaching credential and an administrative credential from the
University of California, Berkeley School of Education. Liu
taught public school for 14 years before becoming a school
administrator. She also served as Executive Director of the
Richmond Federation of Teachers.
Upon moving to Southern California in 1984, Liu became an active
volunteer and civic leader, working on public education and other
issues affecting quality of life. She served as a PTA President,
President of the Pasadena City College Foundation Board, and
Co-Chair of the Pasadena City College sports complex capitol
campaign. In addition, Liu sits on the Board of Trustees of the
U. C. Berkeley Foundation.
Liu, 62, is married to Michael Peevey, a businessman and
entrepreneur. They have three grown children; Jed, Maria, and
Darcie; and three grandchildren.
Contact address:
State Capitol, Sacramento, CA 95814. Phone: (916) 319-2044.
Fax: (916) 319-2144. E-mail:
Assemblymember.Liu@assembly.ca.gov
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