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Birthday: 05/14/1950

SPEIER, Karen Lorraine Jacqueline (Jackie), a Representative from California; born in San Francisco, San Francisco County, Calif., May 14, 1950; graduated from Mercy High School, Burlingame, Calif., 1968; B.A., University of California, Davis, Calif., 1972; J.D., University of California Hastings School of Law, San Francisco, Calif., 1976; staff, United States Representative Leo Joseph Ryan of California, 1973-1978; lawyer, private practice; San Mateo County (Calif.) supervisor, 1980-1986; California state assembly, 1986-1998; California state senate, 1998-2006; unsuccessful candidate for governor of California, 2006; unsuccessful candidate for the special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative Leo Joseph Ryan in the Ninety-Fifth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Tenth Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative Thomas Peter Lantos (April 8, 2008-present).