Karen Bass
Politician
Democrat who was elected to represent California's 37th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives in 2013. She was the second woman to become Speaker of the California State Assembly.
She worked as a physician's assistant at USC Keck School of Medicine after earning a B.S. in health sciences from California State University, Dominguez Hills in 1990.
From 2004 to 2010 she was a member of the California State Assembly from the forty-seventh district.
She was previously married to Jesus Lechuga.
Starting in 2008, she worked as sixty-seventh Speaker of the California State Assembly while Arnold Schwarzenegger was the governor.