U.S. House — California 6th Congressional District

Sacramento County District Attorney since January 2023, the first Vietnamese American elected to the office. His family fled Vietnam in 1976, spent time in a Malaysian refugee camp, and resettled in San Francisco; he earned a political-science degree from UC Davis in 1995 and a law degree from McGeorge School of Law. Over a 25-year prosecutorial career he tried sexual-assault, gang, and homicide cases and served as the lead prosecutor who won the conviction of the Golden State Killer, Joseph DeAngelo, later writing a 2025 memoir about the case. A Democrat, he is running in California's 6th Congressional District on a public-safety and rule-of-law platform.

Incumbent U.S. Representative for California's 6th Congressional District, in Congress since 2013 and one of the longest-serving Indian American members of the House. A physician by training, he previously served as Sacramento County's chief medical officer and as an associate dean at the UC Davis School of Medicine. He sits on the House Foreign Affairs and Science, Space, and Technology committees and is known as a centrist Democrat. He faces a primary challenge from Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho.