Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

With Democrats now filling all statewide offices, dominating both houses of the Legislature, and controlling both U.S. Senate seats and 39 of the state’s 53 House districts, California has become one of the nation’s most solidly blue states. Yet, as Robert Hertzberg will address, California Democrats face a number of challenges, including divisions on some issues and emerging battles to replace older leaders in the state’s top elected offices. 

Hertzberg, a native of Los Angeles, was twice unanimously elected Speaker of the California State Assembly (2000‐2002), and is the first former Assembly Speaker in 86 years to be elected to the California State Senate, where he now serves nearly one million residents in the San Fernando Valley. Hertzberg continues to address the big challenges facing California and is a founding member of The Berggruen Institute’s Think Long Committee and serves on the board of directors at the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College.

Hertzberg is a graduate of The University of Redlands (1976), and earned his law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law (1979).

Mr. Hertzberg's Athenaeum talk is co-sponsored by the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at CMC.

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