A Representative from California. Born in Fort Dodge, Webster County, Iowa, January 3, 1974. B. A. , Yale University, New Haven, Conn. , 1996. J. D. , Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. , 2001. Law professor. Staff, office of the attorney general, Calif. State department of justice, 2012-2014. Faculty, University of California, Irvine, Calif. , 2011-2018. Elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Sixteenth and to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 2019-January 3, 2025). Was not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress in 2024, but was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination to the United States Senate.