Lois Capps
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 24th district |
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In office January 3, 2013 – January 3, 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Elton Gallegly |
| Succeeded by | Salud Carbajal |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 23rd district |
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In office January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Elton Gallegly |
| Succeeded by | Kevin McCarthy |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 22nd district |
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In office March 17, 1998 – January 3, 2003 |
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| Preceded by | Walter Capps |
| Succeeded by | Bill Thomas |
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Lois Ragnhild Grimsrud January 10, 1938 Ladysmith, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Walter Capps (1960–1997) |
| Children | 3 |
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Pacific Lutheran University Yale University University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Religion | Lutheranism |
Lois Ragnhild Grimsrud Capps (born January 10, 1938) was the U.S. Representative for California's 24th congressional district, serving in Congress from 1998 to 2017. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district, numbered as the 22nd District from 1998 to 2003 and the 23rd from 2003 to 2013, includes all of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties and a portion of Ventura County.
Capps served on the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, where she was a member of the Energy and Air Quality Subcommittee and the Subcommittee on Health. She was a member of the New Democrat Coalition.
Capps was born Lois Ragnhild Grimsrud in Ladysmith, Wisconsin, the daughter of Solveig Magdalene (née Gullixson) and Rev. Jurgen Milton Grimsrud, a Lutheran minister. Both of her parents' families came from Norway. She has lived in Santa Barbara since 1964. She was educated at Pacific Lutheran University with a bachelor's degree in nursing. She earned a master's degree in religion at Yale Divinity School in 1964 and a master's degree in education at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
In 1960, while at Yale, she married Walter Capps, a divinity student at Yale who later became a prominent religious studies professor at UCSB; they eventually had three children. Walter died in 1997 and their eldest daughter Lisa died in 2000. Lois Capps worked for 20 years as a nurse and health advocate for the Santa Barbara public schools and also taught early childhood education part-time at Santa Barbara City College.
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