Chairwoman, House Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel

Jackie Speier, D-California

 

Responsibilities

• The House Subcommittee on Military Personnel has jurisdiction over DoD policy and programs related to military health care and benefits, education, POW/MIA issues, military justice and morale, welfare and recreation, commissaries, and retirement issues.

Legislative Committees/Caucuses

• Chair, Strategic Technologies and Advanced Research Subcommittee.
• Member, Defense Intelligence and Warfighter Support Subcommittee.
• Member, Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation
  Subcommittee.
• Member, House Subcommittee on Readiness.
• Member, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
• Member, House Committee on Economic and Consumer Policy.
• Member, House Committee on National Security.
• Member, House Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select).

Political/Professional Career

• Elected to the House in 2013 (District-14), which covers parts of San Francisco and
  San Mateo County.
• Represented California’s 12th Congressional District (2008-2013).
• Served in the California State Senate (1998-2006).
• Served in the California State Assembly (1986-1998).
• San Mateo County supervisor (1980-1986).
• From 1973-1978, Speier worked as legislative aide to Rep. Leo Ryan (D-Ca), who
  died in the 1978 Jonestown Massacre in Guyana. Speier, who accompanied him,
  was shot five times, but survived.
• Introduced the ME TOO Act of 2018, which forms part of the revised1995 Congressional Accountability Act, which rules harassment claims in Congress.
• Term ends in 2023.

Education

• J.D. from the University of California, Hastings School of Law – 1976.
• B.A. from the University of California, Davis – 1972.

Personal

• Karen Lorraine Jacqueline Speier was born May 14, 1950, in San Francisco, CA, the
  daughter of Nancy (née Kanchelian) and Manfred “Fred” Speier.
• Married to Barry Dennis, an investment consultant. Two children.
• Author of three non-fiction books.