Jared Huffman

Jared Huffman came to UC Santa Barbara from Independence, Missouri, on a volleyball scholarship.¹ He became a three time All American setter and played for the USA Volleyball Team in 1987.² He lives in San Rafael with his wife, Susan, a teacher, and has two children.³ His interests outside politics include fishing, hiking and tennis.³

After graduating from UCSB, he earned his law degree at Boston College.³ He worked on race and gender discrimination cases and became a Natural Resources Defense Council senior attorney.³ At NRDC, he helped forge an agreement intended to restore a 153 mile stretch of the San Joaquin River.² The settlement was reached in 2006.⁴

Huffman served on the Marin Municipal Water District board from 1994 to 2006, then spent six years in California's Assembly, where he chaired Water, Parks and Wildlife.³ He entered Congress in January 2013 and is now the Natural Resources Committee's top Democrat.⁵ He also serves on Transportation and Infrastructure.⁶

His priorities include preparing communities for wildfires and drought and protecting coastlines from offshore oil and gas drilling.³ He supports expanded broadband, public schools, special education and affordable housing.³ As a cofounder and cochair of the Congressional Freethought Caucus, he advocates secular government and public policy grounded in reason and science.³ He faces Robin Littau in November.⁷