Current Legislator Tenure Rankings (End of June 2015)

Since 1849, a total of 4,416 people have served in the California State Legislature. So how do the current 120 legislators rank in terms of tenure?

In June, Senator Jim Nielsen (with 18.5 years of legislative service) moved up to become the 119th longest serving California legislator in state history, passing Don A. Allen.

Also in June, Senator Sharon Runner passed the 8-year mark in her legislative service and is now California’s 539th longest serving legislator. She started the month as the 713th.

State Senator Glazer, the legislature’s newest member, finished June with five weeks under his belt and is now the 4410th longest-serving legislator.

The complete list of current legislators ranked by their tenure;

Tenure Ranking	Legislator	Years of Service
120	Nielsen, Jim	18.48
276	Hancock, Loni	12.58
277	Leno, Mark	12.58
278	Liu, Carol	12.58
279	Pavley, Fran	12.58
280	Wolk, Lois	12.58
389	Huff, Bob	10.58
520	Anderson, Joel	8.58
521	Beall, Jim	8.58
522	Berryhill, Tom	8.58
523	De León, Kevin	8.58
524	Fuller, Jean	8.58
525	Gaines, Ted	8.58
526	Galgiani, Cathleen	8.58
527	Hernandez, Ed	8.58
528	Jackson, Hannah-Beth	8.58
713	Runner, Sharon	8.08
752	Bates, Patricia	6.58
753	Block, Marty	6.58
754	Hertzberg, Robert M.	6.58
755	Hill, Jerry	6.58
756	Mendoza, Tony	6.58
757	Monning, Bill	6.58
759	Hall, Isadore	6.56
1188	Gatto, Mike	5.06
1199	Achadjian, Katcho	4.58
1200	Alejo, Luis	4.58
1201	Atkins, Toni G.	4.58
1202	Bonilla, Susan	4.58
1203	Campos, Nora	4.58
1204	Cannella, Anthony	4.58
1205	Gordon, Rich	4.58
1206	Grove, Shannon	4.58
1207	Hernandez, Roger	4.58
1208	Hueso, Ben	4.58
1209	Jones, Brian	4.58
1210	Lara, Ricardo	4.58
1211	Mitchell, Holly J.	4.58
1212	Morrell, Mike	4.58
1213	Olsen, Kristin	4.58
1214	Pan, Richard	4.58
1215	Perea, Henry T.	4.58
1216	Wagner, Don	4.58
1217	Wieckowski, Bob	4.58
1218	Williams, Das	4.58
1230	Gaines, Beth B.	4.15
1988	Allen, Travis	2.58
1989	Bigelow, Frank	2.58
1990	Bloom, Richard	2.58
1991	Bonta, Rob	2.58
1992	Brown, Cheryl R.	2.58
1993	Calderon, Ian	2.58
1994	Chau, Edwin	2.58
1995	Chavez, Rocky	2.58
1996	Cooley, Ken	2.58
1997	Dahle, Brian D.	2.58
1998	Daly, Tom	2.58
1999	Eggman, Susan T.	2.58
2000	Frazier, Jim	2.58
2001	Garcia, Cristina	2.58
2002	Gomez, Jimmy	2.58
2003	Gray, Adam	2.58
2004	Holden, Chris	2.58
2005	Jones-Sawyer Jr., Reginald B.	2.58
2006	Levine, Marc	2.58
2007	Linder, Eric	2.58
2008	Maienschein, Brian	2.58
2009	Medina, Jose J.	2.58
2010	Melendez, Melissa	2.58
2011	Mullin, Kevin	2.58
2012	Nazarian, Adrin	2.58
2013	Patterson, Jim	2.58
2014	Quirk, Bill	2.58
2015	Rendon, Anthony	2.58
2016	Roth, Richard	2.58
2017	Salas, Rudy	2.58
2018	Stone, Mark W.	2.58
2019	Ting, Phil	2.58
2020	Waldron, Marie	2.58
2021	Weber, Shirley N.	2.58
2022	Wilk, Scott	2.58
2042	Gonzalez, Lorena	2.12
3622	Vidak, Andy	1.94
3630	Rodriguez, Freddie	1.77
3636	Dababneh, Matt	1.62
3640	Ridley-Thomas, Sebastian	1.58
4347	Allen, Ben	0.58
4348	Baker, Catharine	0.58
4349	Brough, William	0.58
4350	Burke, Autumn	0.58
4351	Chang, Ling-Ling	0.58
4352	Chiu, David	0.58
4353	Chu, Kansen	0.58
4354	Cooper, Jim	0.58
4355	Dodd, Bill	0.58
4356	Gallagher, James	0.58
4357	Garcia, Eduardo	0.58
4358	Gipson, Mike	0.58
4359	Hadley, David	0.58
4360	Harper, Matthew	0.58
4361	Irwin, Jacqui	0.58
4362	Kim, Young	0.58
4363	Lackey, Tom	0.58
4364	Leyva, Connie	0.58
4365	Lopez, Patty	0.58
4366	Low, Evan	0.58
4367	Mathis, Devon	0.58
4368	Mayes, Chad	0.58
4369	McCarty, Kevin	0.58
4370	McGuire, Mike	0.58
4371	Nguyen, Janet	0.58
4372	Obernolte, Jay	0.58
4373	O’Donnell, Patrick	0.58
4374	Santiago, Miguel	0.58
4375	Steinorth, Marc	0.58
4376	Stone, Jeff	0.58
4377	Thurmond, Tony	0.58
4378	Wood, Jim	0.58
4397	Moorlach, John M. W.	0.29
4416	Glazer, Steve	0.10