Jared Huffman was elected in November, 2012 to represent California’s 2^ndCongressional District which spans from the Golden Gate Bridge north to the Oregon border, and includes Marin, Sonoma, Mendocino, Humboldt, Trinity, and Del Norte Counties.  He serves on the Natural Resources Committee, where his Vice Ranking Member, and the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

Before his election to Congress, Huffman represented the North Bay for six years in the California Assembly, where he distinguished himself as a legislator who works hard and gets results, often forging bipartisan consensus on difficult issues. Huffman authored well over 60 pieces of successful legislation in the Assembly and received numerous awards for his legislative leadership.  

Prior to his election to public office, Huffman was a Senior Attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). One of his proudest accomplishments at NRDC was helping forge an agreement to restore a 153-mile stretch of the San Joaquin River in California’s Central Valley.

Before he joined NRDC, Huffman was a successful public interest attorney whose victories included several major jury verdicts in gender discrimination and race discrimination trials. He also served 12 years in local government as a Director of the Marin Municipal Water District (MMWD), from 1994 to 2006.

Huffman graduatedmagna cum laudefrom the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he was also a three-time NCAA All-American volleyball player. He went on to play for the USA Volleyball Team in 1987 when the team was ranked #1 in the world, before attending and graduatingcum laudefrom Boston College Law School.  Huffman was inducted into the UCSB Athletics Hall of Fame in 2016.

Huffman lives in San Rafael with his wife Susan, a public school teacher, and his two children.

As your representative in Congress, I’m fighting for the values we share. 

That includes defending our environment, civil rights and healthcare reforms against reckless rollbacks; and protecting democratic institutions that ensure the rule of law.   

It also includes confronting our country’s dangerous concentration of wealth and power.  Special interests have rigged our political system, and President Trump is making it worse – flouting ethics rules, gutting regulatory protections, and passing an irresponsible tax law that punishes Californians and requires trillions in borrowing to fund huge tax cuts for billionaires. 

We deserve a better deal focused on the future, with bold investments in infrastructure, research and education.  We must upgrade aging roads, transit and water systems; bring broadband internet to every community; and accelerate our transition to renewable energy.  This will boost productivity, create quality jobs that can’t be outsourced, cure diseases and reduce healthcare costs, and help address climate change. 

I’m co-sponsoring net neutrality legislation to ensure open access to the internet, commonsense reforms to reduce gun violence, and a bipartisan bill to increase special education funding. 

I’ll keep fighting for our local priorities – standing up to Big Oil and its agenda of more drilling, fracking and polluting; protecting our rivers and fisheries; securing funding for transportation infrastructure, dredging of commercially vital waterways, and more.  

Finally, I’ll keep showing up and listening.  I’ve spoken with over 12,000 constituents at town hall style meetings these past two years, and engaged thousands of young people in constructive dialogue through regular school visits.  

I would be honored by your vote.