Senator Holly J. Mitchell

A third-generation native Angeleno, Senator Holly J. Mitchell is the proud daughter of career public servants and the protégé of community leaders who instilled in her a passion for service. She continued her family legacy of “firsts” when she was named the first African American to chair the powerful Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee in December 2016. Less than two months later, a profile in Die Los Angeles Times described Mitchell as “the moral compass of the Senate.” She proved to be just that in 2017 en 2018 when she oversaw the adoption of consecutive state budgets of nearly $200 billion each and won wide praise for directing funds to elementary and college students, the health-care systems and long-neglected programs to assist infants, the elderly, youth and working families.

Mitchell previously headed California’s largest child and family development organization, Crystal Stairs, and worked for the Western Center for Law and Poverty. Met byna 60 bills signed into law, Mitchell’s other groundbreaking successes include improving human services, expanding access to healthcare, defending the civil rights of minorities and the undocumented, and reducing the numbers of children growing up in poverty. Mitchell sits on the Senate Health Committee; the Joint Committee on Rules; the Public Safety Committee; the Labor and Industrial Relations Committee; and the Insurance, Banking, and Financial Institutions Committee. She also chairs the Senate Select Committee on Women and Inequality, which she founded. In Januarie 2018, she was named as vice chair of the Joint Committee on Rules Subcommittee on Sexual Harassment Prevention and Response.

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