Judy Chu

Judy May Chu ( Chinese name赵 美 心; Pinyin: Zhao Meixin ) (* July 7, 1953 in Los Angeles, California ) is a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives for the 32th Congressional District of California, which she represented the company since 2009. She is a member of the Democratic Party.

Chu was previously Vice President and then President of the California Board of Equalization and represented as the fourth district. She was also a member of the Garvey Unified School District Board of Education, the Monterey Park City Council, where she also held the function of the mayor and in the California State Assembly.

Chu ran in a special election in May 2009 for the vacant seat of Hilda Solis, after this initial 2009 U.S. Secretary of Labor in the Cabinet was Obama. Chu was the vote richest candidate in this special election on May 19 and sat down at the decisive second round of voting on 14 July by. Chu is the first Chinese -born woman to be elected to the Congress of the United States. In the congressional elections of November 2, 2010, she was re-elected with a large majority.

Before the political career

Judy Chu is the second of four children of Judson and May Chu, in their place of origin in the district of Xinhui in Guangdong Province. 1948 The couple then moved to Los Angeles, where it settled near the intersection of 62nd Street and Normandie Avenue. The family lived there until Judy Chu was teenage and then moved to the Bay Area.

Chu graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA) and graduated with a BA in mathematics. She then earned a Ph.D. in psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology. For twenty years she taught at various schools in Los Angeles, including 13 years at East Los Angeles College.

Political career

Chu's first office to which she was elected was in 1985 in the Board of Directors of the Garvey School District in Rosemead. In 1988 she was elected park in the City Council of Monterey, where she served three times worked as a mayor. She joined in 1994 in the election for the California State Assembly, but was defeated in the primaries Diane Martinez; four years later, in 1998, she could not prevail in the primaries against Gloria Romero.

Chu was elected in a special election but on 15 May 2001 in the State Assembly after Romero had successfully applied for a post in the Senate of California. Chu was elected in 2002 for a full term and reelected in 2004. To her constituency included Alhambra, El Monte, Duarte, Monterey Park, Rosemead, San Gabriel, San Marino and South El Monte, all these places are in Los Angeles County.

Due to the statutory term limits her candidacy for a third full term in 2006 was not possible. Instead, she was elected to a State Committee for Equality in the fourth district, which represents the major part of Los Angeles County.

Chu was a candidate in the special election for the 32th Congressional District, after the then incumbent Hilda Solis was appointed as the Secretary of Labor. She led the field of candidates in the special election of 19 May 2010, but due to the large number of candidates ( eight Democrats and four Republicans had a candidate ) reached only 31.9 percent of the vote, significantly less than that for a direct profit of the seat required absolute majority. She sat down in the second round on July 14, however, clearly against her sister Betty Tom Chu of the Republican Party and against Christopher Agrella of the Libertarian Party through. In the election, she went into the race due to the strong tendency of the electoral district to the Democrats as a clear favorite; Cook Partisan Voting Index with a D 15 is this constituency one of the safest constituencies of the Democrats in the country.

House of Representatives of the United States

Committees

  • Committee on Education and Labor Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education
  • Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities
  • Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties
  • Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law
  • Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law

Chu was sworn in on 16 July 2009 as a Congressman.

Personal life

Chu is married to Mike Eng since 1978. Eng in 2001 Chus successor at the City Council of Monterey Park and in 2006 he went to Chu's successor in the California State Assembly, when Chu was elected to Congress.

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