A Representative from California. Born in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Mass. , April 13, 1944. B. A. , University of California, Berkeley, Calif. , 1965. M. S. W. , University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. , 1968. Member of the San Diego, Calif. , board of education, 1983-1992. President, 1989-1992. Executive director, Aaron Price Fellows, 1990-1994. Member of the California state assembly, 1994-2000. Elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Seventh and to the nine succeeding Congresses (January 3, 2001-January 3, 2021). Was not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Seventeenth Congress in 2020.