Zoe Lofgren

Zoe Lofgren
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 16th district
Incumbent
Assumed office  January 4, 1995–
Preceded by	Don Edwards
Succeeded by	Incumbent
Born	December 21 1947 (1947--) (age 59) San Mateo, California
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	John Marshall Collins
Religion	Lutheran

Zoe Lofgren (born Sue Lofgren on December 21 1947), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1995, representing the 16th District of California (map), based in San Jose.

A lifelong Bay Area resident, Lofgren attended Gunn High School in Palo Alto, earned her B.A. at Stanford University and a J.D. at Santa Clara University. She left the San Jose area for a few years after graduation from Stanford, to serve years as a staff assistant to Congressman Don Edwards, where she worked, among other projects, on the attempted impeachment of Richard Nixon. Returning to San Jose, she worked in Edwards' District Office, and took her law degree. After two years as partner at a law practice in San Jose, she was elected first to a Community College board, then to the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, where she served for 13 years.

In 1994, Edwards decided to retire after 32 years in Congress. Lofgren entered the Democratic primary as a decided underdog, but managed to defeat the favorite, former San Jose mayor Tom McEnery. San Jose is so heavily Democratic that her victory in the general election was a foregone conclusion. She has been reelected five times with virtually no opposition. Lofgren was only the second representative of the 16th District (Edwards had served since the district's creation in 1963).

Lofgren is currently the Chair of the 33-member California Democratic Congressional Delegation. She serves on the Judiciary Committee and is the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims

Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren has shown exemplary leadership and conviction when she made USCIS honor the decision of July 2007 Visa Bulletin and again accepting employment-based I-485 (Adjustment of Status) filings. USCIS had earlier reversed their decision and had stopped accepting the application for adjustment of status. With Zoe's timely involvement and pressure from pro-immigration skilled professional, USCIS restarted acceping the applications and thus avoided a costly litigation against them.

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• "The Vietnamese government has now taken the unprecedented step of imprisoning a United States citizen who states that he is being held solely because of his pro-democratic, non-violent views," said by U.S. Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren concerning the arrest of Vietnamese-American Canh Thong Do [1]

External links

• U.S. Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren official House site
• Zoe Lofgren at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Federal Election Commission — Zoe Lofgren campaign finance reports and data
• On the Issues — Zoe Lofgren issue positions and quotes
• OpenSecrets.org — Zoe Lofgren campaign contributions
• Project Vote Smart — Representative Zoe Lofgren (CA) profile
• SourceWatch Congresspedia — Zoe Lofgren profile
• Washington Post — Congress Votes Database: Zoe Lofgren voting record
• Zoe Lofgren for U.S. Congress official campaign site

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