Gail Pellerin

Two-term Assemblymember (elected 2022, reelected 2024) and former Santa Cruz County Clerk and chief elections official (1993–2020, served as Clerk 2004–2020). Past President of the California Association of Clerks and Election Officials (2010–2012). Chairs the Assembly Elections Committee and the Select Committee on California's Mental Health Crisis — the latter informed by personal experience after her husband's suicide in 2018. BS in journalism, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, 1984.