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Ricardo Lara's Biography

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Contact Information

Office

1901 Harrison Street, 6th Floor
San Francisco, 94162

300 Capitol Mall, 17th Floor
Sacramento, 95814

300 South Spring Street, 14th Floor
Los Angeles, 90013

Full Name:

Ricardo Lara

Gender:

Male

Birth Place:

Commerce

Home City:

Los Angeles, CA

Masters, Leadership, University of Southern California, 2010

BA, Journalism, San Diego State University, 1999

BA, Spanish, San Diego State University, 1999

Candidate, California Commissioner of Insurance, 2022

California Commissioner of Insurance, 2019-Present

Senator, California State Senate, District 33, 2012-2019

Assembly Member, California State Assembly, District 50, 2010-2012

Candidate, California State Assembly, District 46, 2008

Member, Advisory Board, Western Commission for Higher Education, present

Former Member, Appropriations Committee, California State Assembly

Former Chair, Appropriations Committee, California State Senate

Former Member, Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism, and Internet Media Committee, California State House of Representatives

Former Member, Banking and Finance Committee, California State Assembly

Former Member, Banking and Financial Institutions Committee, California State Senate

Former Member, Building Equity and Growth in Neighborhoods Program

Former Member, California-Mexico Cooperation Committee, California State Senate

Former Member, Elections and Redistricting Committee, California State House of Representatives

Former Member, Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee, California State Senate

Former Member, Environmental Quality Committee, California State Senate

Former Member, Governance and Finance Committee, California State Senate

Former Member, Governmental Organization Committee, California State Senate

Former Member, Higher Education Committee, California State Assembly

Former Chair, Joint Legislative Audit Committee, California State Assembly

Former Member, Legislative Audit Committee, California State Senate

Former Member, Legislative Budget Committee, California State Senate

Former Member, Los Angeles County's Consumer Affairs Commission

Former Member, Passenger Rail Committee, California State Senate

Former Member, Ports and Goods Movement Committee, California State Senate

Former Member, Revenue and Taxation Committee, California State House of Representaives

Former Member, Rules Committee, California State House of Representatives

Former Member, Rules Committee, California State Senate

Former Member, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Committee, California State Senate

Former Member, Student Success Committee, California State Senate

Former Member, Subcommittee on Emergencies, Disaster Response and Port Security, California State Senate

Former Chair, US Citizen Youth Exiled in Mexico Committee, California State Senate

Former Member, Water, Parks, and Wildlife Committee, California State Assembly

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

Former District Director, Assembly Member Fabian Nuñez, California State Assembly

Former Communications Director, Assembly Member Kevin de Léon, California State Assembly

Former Chief of Staff, Assembly Member Marco Antonio Firebaugh, California State Assembly

Member, Bellflower Noon Lions Club, present

Member, Downey Kiwanis Club, Kiwanis International, present

Member, Optimist International, present

Member, South Gate Rotary Club, present

Former Member, Advocacy Project Board, Planned Parenthood

Former Member, Board of Directors, Parent Institute for Quality Education

Former Member, College Board's Hispanic Advisory Committee for Latino College Completion

Member, Equality California Institue

Awards:

Champion of Change award, President Barack Obama; "Point man in the push for immigrant rights," Los Angeles Times

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