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In her 26 years of public service in California, former State Senator Jackie Speier has learned one thing: Women must mobilize to help other women. If we continue to tear each other apart, we'll never succeed in reaching equity.
Speier served two terms as a state senator, setting a record by sponsoring more than 300 pieces of legislation signed into law in health care, privacy, child welfare, consumer protection, education and prison reform. Much of her groundbreaking legislation has become a template for national legislation.
Her tenacious career has been shaped by events that unfolded in 1978, when as a legal counsel to then-Congressman Leo Ryan, she ...