Lucille Roybal-Allard

Lucille Roybal-Allard of California has served in the House of Representatives since 1993. She is the first Mexican-American woman ever elected to Congress, the first Latina to serve on the House Appropriations Committee, and the first Latina to chair an Appropriations subcommittee. As chair of the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, she fights to ensure homeland security personnel have the resources they need to keep the country safe, and she advocates for bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform. She is the House’s only remaining original coauthor of the Dream Act and a founder of the Women’s Working Group on Immigration Reform. She is also a House Democratic Senior Whip; a member and former chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus; a co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Maternity Care; a vice chair of the Congressional Task Force on Seniors; and a member of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus, and the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Congresswoman Roybal-Allard is the eldest daughter of the late Congressman Edward R. Roybal and Lucille Beserra Roybal. She received her bachelor's degree from California State University, Los Angeles, and served in the California State Assembly from 1987 to 1992.