19 Facts About Bill Monning

William Wheeler Monning was born on April 2,1951 and is an American politician who was elected to the California State Senate in 2012.

Bill Monning was reelected to the Senate in 2016 for a second and final term ending in November, 2020.

Bill Monning attended Flintridge Preparatory School from fifth to twelfth grade and participated in athletics including football, basketball, baseball and swimming.

Bill Monning served as a Senior Fulbright Specialist, receiving Fulbright scholarships to teach and research in Peru and Chile.

Bill Monning then became Directing Attorney for California Rural Legal Assistance, Migrant Farm Worker Project.

From 1982 through 1987 Bill Monning was the Director of the Salvadoran Medical Relief Fund, and from 1987 through 1991 he was executive director for the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.

Bill Monning is the former president and co-founder of Global Majority, Inc.

In 2008 Bill Monning ran for and won the California State District 27 Assembly seat being vacated by termed out John Laird.

Bill Monning hoped to work with community groups and other legislators to effect reform in this and other areas including electoral, campaign finance and economic justice.

In 2012 Bill Monning was elected to the California State Senate after the incumbent, Sam Blakeslee, R-San Luis Obispo, chose not to run in the newly drawn 17th Senate district.

Bill Monning became Senate Majority leader in 2014 when he was appointed by then State Senate President pro tempore Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles.

Bill Monning was reelected to the Senate in 2016 for a second and final term.

In 2016 Bill Monning seriously considered running to fill the seat being vacated by retiring Congressmen Sam Farr but felt he could be more effective in working on climate policy and other important issues as a leader in Sacramento as opposed to being a member of the minority party in Washington.

Bill Monning served as Majority Leader of the California State Senate from 2015 to 2019.

Bill Monning remains an active member of the State Bar of California and does work as a mediator, trainer, and consultant.

Senator Monning successfully authored another bill, SB 168 in 2013, to help agricultural workers get back wages and penalties owed by state-licensed farm labor contractors.

In 2015 Bill Monning co-sponsored, with Lois Wolk, SB 128, the California End of Life Option Act.

Bill Monning was very moved by the testimony of terminally ill people in Sacramento, "They knew that they weren't going to be able to benefit from it, and yet they still came, facing their terminal conditions, making sure that those who followed them would have options that they didn't have".

Senator Bill Monning believes climate change is the largest long-term threat to humanity and that it will negatively affect public health and coastal communities.