Former Member, Orange County Board of Supervisors

Senator, California State Senate, District 36, 2014-2022

Minority Floor Leader, California State Senate, 2017-2018

Candidate, California State Senate, District 36, 2018

Supervisor, Orange County, 2007

Assembly Member, California State Assembly, District 73, 1998-2004

Mayor, Laguna Niguel, 1989

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, Select Committee on Women, Work and Families, California State Senate

Former Member, Select Committee on the Social Determinants of Children's Well-Being, California State Senate

Former Member, Student Success Committee, 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

Former Social Caseworker, County of Los Angeles

Former Member, Laguna Niguel City Council

Member, Chamber of Commerce, present

Member, Taxpayers for Responsible Planning Advisory Board, present

Former President, Conservative Women's Leadership Association

Former Member, Gang Suppression Task Force

Member, Junior League of Orange County

Former Member, Laguna Niguel Republican Women Federated

Former Member, Laguna Niguel Rotary Club

Former Member, Saddleback Community College Foundation Board

Former Member, South Coast Medical Center Foundation

Orange County Mentoring Program Task Force, 1997

Member, Orange County Charter Commission, 1995

Favorite Quote:

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

Number of Grandchildren:

4

Spouse's Occupation:

Architect