Diane Watson

Diane Edith Watson ( born November 12, 1933, Los Angeles, California) is an American politician. Between 2001 and 2011, she represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Diane Watson studied until 1956 at the University of California at Los Angeles. After that, she was an elementary school teacher and school psychologist in this city. She also graduated from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the Claremont Graduate University. From 1969 to 1971 she was Fakultätsmitglid California State University in Los Angeles. From 1971 to 1973 she worked for the Ministry of Education of the State of California; 1975-1978 she served on the school board of the city of Los Angeles. At the same time they hit as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1978 and 1998, she was sitting in the Senate of California. In the years 1999 and 2000, she was U.S. Ambassador to Micronesia.

After the death of Mr Julian C. Dixon Diane Watson was at the due election for the 32 seats of California as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where they took up their new mandate on 5 June 2001. Since 2003, she represented there the 33rd electoral district of their state. In her time as a Member of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell. Watson was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in six subcommittees. In 2010, she gave up another candidacy. Your succeeded by Karen Bass.