Julia Brownley

Julia Brownley was born in Aiken, South Carolina, on August 28, 1952. She graduated from Fairfax Hall in Waynesboro, Virginia, in 1970, earned a B.A. from Mount Vernon College (now the George Washington University) in Washington, D.C., in 1975, and received an M.B.A. from American University in 1979. She worked as a marketing executive.

Brownley was a member of the Santa Monica-Malibu school district board from 1994 to 2006 and of the California State Assembly from 2006 to 2012. She was elected as a Democrat to the 113th Congress and has served in the House since January 3, 2013. She represents California's 26th Congressional District and sits on the Committees on Natural Resources, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Veterans' Affairs.