Judy Chu
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 27th district |
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Assumed office January 3, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Brad Sherman | ||||||||||||||||||
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 32nd district |
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In office July 14, 2009 – January 3, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Hilda Solis | ||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Grace Napolitano | ||||||||||||||||||
| Member of the California State Board of Equalization from the 4th district |
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In office January 3, 2007 – July 14, 2009 |
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| Preceded by | John Chiang | ||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Jerome Horton | ||||||||||||||||||
| Member of the California State Assembly from the 49th district |
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In office May 15, 2001 – December 4, 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Gloria Romero | ||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Mike Eng | ||||||||||||||||||
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Judy May Chu 趙美心 July 7, 1953 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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| Political party | Democratic | ||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Mike Eng (m. 1978) | ||||||||||||||||||
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University of California, Los Angeles (BA) Alliant International University, Los Angeles (MA, PhD) |
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| Traditional Chinese | 趙美心 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 赵美心 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hanyu Pinyin | Zhào Měixīn | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Zhào Měixīn |
| Wade–Giles | Chao4 Mei3-hsin1 |
| IPA | [ʈʂâu mèiɕín] |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Jiuh Méihsām |
| Jyutping | Ziu6 Mei5 sam1 |
| Canton Romanization | Jiu6 Méi5 sem1 |
Judy May Chu (Chinese: 趙美心; born July 7, 1953) is an American politician. She is the first Chinese American woman elected to the U.S. Congress. She serves as the U.S. Representative for California's 27th congressional district, serving in Congress since 2009. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Chu was previously Chair of the California Board of Equalization, representing the 4th District. She had also served on the Garvey Unified School District Board of Education, the Monterey Park City Council (with five terms as mayor) and the California State Assembly.
Chu ran in the 32nd congressional district special election for the seat that was vacated by Hilda Solis after she was confirmed as Barack Obama's U.S. Secretary of Labor in 2009. She defeated Republican candidate Betty Tom Chu and Libertarian candidate Christopher Agrella in a runoff election on July 14, 2009. Chu was redistricted to the 27th District in 2012, but was still re-elected to a third term, defeating Republican challenger Jack Orswell.
Judy Chu is the second of four children of Judson and May Chu, who were married in 1948 in their ancestral home of Xinhui, Jiangmen, Guangdong. They subsequently moved to Los Angeles, near 62nd Street and Normandie Avenue, where Chu was born and grew up until her early teen years, when the family moved to the Bay Area. Chu graduated with a B.A. in mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles. She then earned a Ph.D. in psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology of Alliant International University's Los Angeles campus.
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