USC in the Legislature (2013)

In the 2013-14 class of legislators, three of the new Assemblymembers are graduates of southern California’s finest educational institution, the University of Southern California. They are;

• Assemblyman Edwin Chau (49th District)
  B.A. in Computer Science and Sociology
• Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia (58th District)
  Ph.D. Candidate in Public Administration
• Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer (59th District)
  B.S. in Public Administration

Other current USC grads in the state legislature include Senator Ricardo Lara, and Assemblymembers Isadore Hall, Bob Blumenfield, Mariko Yamada, and Richard Gordon.

In other news, the 2013-14 class of legislators have also received degrees from Berkeley (5), Harvard (3), Yale (1), Columbia (1), and nine who graduated from that other school in Los Angeles.