Zoe Lofgren

Zoe Lofgren worked the night shift at an Eastman Kodak plant in Palo Alto to cover college expenses her scholarship did not pay.¹ The daughter of a truck driver and a cafeteria cook, she became the first in her family to attend college.¹ She and her husband John have two adult children and three grandchildren.¹

She graduated from Stanford in 1970 and Santa Clara's law school in 1975.² /) Her early career included eight years on Congressman Don Edwards's staff, private legal practice and teaching law.² /) She practiced and taught immigration law and helped establish the nonprofit Community Housing Developers.¹

After service on a community college board and fourteen years as a county supervisor, Lofgren entered Congress in 1995.¹ She is now the senior Democrat on Science, Space and Technology and a Judiciary member.¹ Her immigration negotiations helped produce the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, which passed the House twice without completing the legislative process.¹

Lofgren supports immigration reform, stronger digital privacy protections and greater access to voting.¹ Her science agenda includes fusion energy, wildfire research and agricultural technology.¹ Republican Shane Lewis is her November challenger as she seeks another term representing the district.³