Member, District 34
About Lucille Roybal-Allard
From Los Angeles, CA; born in Los
Angeles, June 12, 1941; education: B.A., California State University,
Los Angeles, 1965; served in the California State Assembly, 1987-92;
married: Edward T. Allard III; two children: Lisa Marie and Ricardo; two
stepchildren: Angela and Guy Mark; the first woman to serve as the chair
of the California Democratic Congressional Delegation in the 105th
Congress; in the 106th Congress, she became the first woman to chair the
Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and the first Latina in history to be
appointed to the House Appropriations Committee; committees:
Appropriations; Standards of Official Conduct; subcommittees: Homeland
Security; Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related
Agencies; the first Mexican-American woman elected to
Congress on November 3, 1992 to the 103rd Congress; reelected to each
succeeding Congress.