26 Facts About Jeff Gorell

In 2010, Gorell was elected to the State Legislature to serve as Assembly Member for the 37th Assembly District in California, representing most of Ventura County.

In 2014, Jeff Gorell was a candidate for the US House of Representatives in California's 26th congressional district.

Jeff Gorell earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in history from the University of California, Davis in 1992.

Jeff Gorell obtained his Juris Doctor from the University of the Pacific's McGeorge School of Law in 1998, and earned a certificate in international legal studies at University of Salzburg studying under Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court Anthony Kennedy.

In 2023, Jeff Gorell was selected to command NR United States Indo-Pacific Command Joint Intelligence Operations Center Headquarters, Pearl Harbor, HI, a joint unit of 150 reserve personnel.

Jeff Gorell spent a one-year deployment in the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan.

Jeff Gorell was decorated for leadership and meritorious actions in a combat zone.

Jeff Gorell led multiple combat cameramen teams into the mountains of Afghanistan to embed with small Special Forces teams as they captured enemy weapons caches and fought the Taliban and Al Qaeda terrorists.

Jeff Gorell is the grandson of a Seabee who served in Guam during World War II and the son of a career naval officer and Vietnam veteran.

Jeff Gorell was mobilized for his second tour in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan in March 2011.

Jeff Gorell was embedded with US Marines as an intelligence officer at Camp Leatherneck in Helmand, Afghanistan.

Jeff Gorell returned home and to his work in the California State Legislature in March 2012.

Jeff Gorell advised clients and served as the company's legal counsel.

Jeff Gorell was a member of the California Lutheran University faculty, teaching undergraduate and graduate-level politics and public policy as an adjunct professor.

From 1993 to 1996, Jeff Gorell served as an advisor, writer, and deputy press secretary to former California Governor Pete Wilson, working to develop the administration's message on such state policy changes as "Three Strikes," state welfare reform, manufacturers' investment tax credits, "Megan's Law," and class size reduction.

Jeff Gorell left the Wilson Administration to serve as a spokesperson for various California businesses, including as Director of Communications for the California Manufacturers and Technology Association from 1996 to 1999.

Jeff Gorell advocated before the legislature and Capitol press corps for pro-business legislation in the areas of taxes, regulations, workers compensation, tort reform, and trade law.

Jeff Gorell served as a trial prosecutor in the major narcotics, violent felony units, and juvenile crime units.

Jeff Gorell was the only Republican running for Assembly in 2010 to receive an endorsement from the California Federation of Labor, one of the state's prominent labor unions.

Jeff Gorell received the endorsement of the Chamber of Commerce.

On October 9,2010, Jeff Gorell was endorsed by the Ventura County Star newspaper.

Just before the November 2 general election, Jeff Gorell announced that he was being mobilized for duty by the United States Navy Reserve and deployed to Afghanistan on March 18,2011.

Jeff Gorell noted that he would still be able to sponsor legislation and would not be drawing an assembly salary while serving overseas.

In 2014, Jeff Gorell introduced the Drone Privacy Protection Bill, which would ban warrant-less spying by police drones in many cases.

In November 2013, Jeff Gorell announced he would challenge Democratic US Congresswoman Julia Brownley for California's 26th congressional district, based in Ventura County.

Jeff Gorell was endorsed by former State Senator Tony Strickland.