Pedro Nava (b. 1948) is the state assemblymember for California's 35th District, a region spanning portions of Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties. He serves on five committees: Assembly Budget, Higher Education, Insurance, Joint Legislative Audit and Budget, and Natural Resources, as well as several select committees. Nava also chairs the Information Technology and Transportation Budget Subcommittee. He is a graduate of California State University, San Bernardino and the Martin Luther King Jr. Hall School of Law at UC Davis. State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd) - Land 404,298 km² - Water 20,047 km² (4. ... Santa Barbara is the county seat and principal city of Santa Barbara County, on the Pacific coast of California. ... Ventura is the name of several places in the United States of America: Ventura, California Ventura, Iowa Ventura County, California Jesse Ventura (real name James George Janos) was a wrestler who was elected Governor of Minnesota in 1998 as a protest against established political parties. ... View of campus with San Bernardino Mountains on the background. ... The University of California, Davis, commonly abbreviated to UC Davis or UCD is one of the ten University of California campuses. ...
Pedro was elected to the State Assembly on November 2nd, 2004.
Pedro later became a Deputy District Attorney in the Fresno County DA's Office, involved in Targeted Narcotics Prosecution, headed up the county-wide Drug Crime Task Force, was a Board member of the Fresno Rape Crisis Center and President of the Fresno Community College President's EOPandS Advisory Committee.
Pedro is married to Susan Jordan, co-founder of the California Coastal Protection Network (CCPN) and Vote The Coast.