15 Facts About Lucille Roybal-Allard

Lucille Elsa Roybal-Allard was born on June 12,1941 and is an American politician who served as a US representative from California from 1993 to 2023.

Lucille Roybal-Allard's district, numbered as the 33rd until 2003, the 34th from 2003 to 2013, and the 40th from 2013 to 2023, included much of southern Los Angeles, as well as several eastern suburbs, such as Downey, Bell and Bell Gardens.

On December 20,2021, Roybal-Allard announced her retirement at the end of the 117th Congress.

Lucille Roybal-Allard attended Ramona Convent Secondary School in Alhambra, California, graduating in 1959.

Lucille Roybal-Allard was a member of the California State Assembly from 1987 to 1992, first elected on May 12,1987, in a special election to replace Gloria Molina, who resigned after being elected to the Los Angeles City Council.

In 1992, Lucille Roybal-Allard won the Democratic nomination for the newly created 33rd district, which included a sliver of the area her father had represented for 30 years.

Lucille Roybal-Allard won the general election handily and was re-elected 14 times with no substantial opposition in this heavily Democratic, Latino-majority district.

Lucille Roybal-Allard's district was renumbered the 34th after the 2000 census and the 40th after the 2010 census.

Lucille Roybal-Allard was the first Latina to serve as one of the 12 "cardinals", or chairs, of a House Appropriations Subcommittee, as well as the first Latina to serve on the House Appropriations Committee.

Lucille Roybal-Allard is the first woman to chair the Congressional Hispanic Caucus; the first woman to chair the California Democratic congressional delegation; and the founder of the Women's Working Group on Immigration Reform.

Lucille Roybal-Allard has been active in the Congressional Children's Caucus and on the Democratic Homeland Security and the Livable Communities task forces.

Lucille Roybal-Allard was the first Democratic Mexican-American woman to serve in Congress.

Lucille Roybal-Allard authored The Children's Act for Responsible Employment to address abusive and exploitative child labor practices in agriculture.

Lucille Roybal-Allard opposed the overturning of Roe v Wade, calling it an infringement on a woman's right to choose.

Lucille Roybal-Allard's archives are in the collection of the California State Archives.