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What is Jackie Speier net worth?
Jackie Speier net worth 2024: Karen Lorraine Jacqueline Speier is an American politician who has a net worth. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district, numbered as the 12th District. Speier was a member of the California State Senate, representing parts of San Francisco and San Mateo counties.
On April 8, 2008, she won the special election for the vacated United States House of Representatives seat of the late Congressman Tom Lantos.
Early life and education
Speier was born in 1950 in San Francisco, and grew up in an apolitical family, the daughter of Nancy (née Kanchelian) and Manfred “Fred” Speier.
Her mother, who was born in Fresno of Armenian descent, lost most of her extended family in the Armenian Genocide, while her father was an emigrant from Germany.
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He was the son of a Jewish father and a Catholic mother. Speier took Jacqueline as her confirmation name after Jackie Kennedy. She is a graduate of Mercy High School in Burlingame. She earned a B.A. degree from the University of California, Davis, and a J.D. degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1976.
Family
Speier’s first marriage was to Dr. Steven Sierra, an emergency-room doctor, in 1987. In 1988, they had a son Jackson Kent, while she was serving as a member of the California State Assembly. Sierra died in a car accident in 1994 at the age of 53. At the time, Speier was two months pregnant with their second child, a daughter she named Stephanie.
Political career
Speier’s political career began with an unsuccessful run to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Congressman Ryan. She lost the Democratic primary to another former Ryan staffer, G. W. “Joe” Holsinger.
He lost the special election to the Republican candidate Bill Royer, San Mateo County Supervisor, who would serve the remaining 21 months of the term before losing to Tom Lantos.
Speier won her first election in 1980, when she ran for the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors and defeated a 20-year incumbent. At the time, she was the youngest person ever elected to the board. She was reelected in 1984, and was later selected as chairwoman.
U.S. House of Representatives
On January 13, 2008, Speier announced she was running in the Democratic primary for the 12th District, Ryan’s old district. The seat was being vacated by 14-term incumbent and fellow Democrat Tom Lantos, who announced on January 2, 2008, that he was not seeking re-election. Speier had spent much of 2007 building support to challenge Lantos in the Democratic primary.
Lantos endorsed Speier as his successor. She also picked up endorsements from Congresswoman Anna Eshoo, Congressman Mike Thompson and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom.
Jackie Speier Net Worth
Jackie Speier net worth: Karen Lorraine Jacqueline Speier is an American politician who has a net worth. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district, numbered as the 12th District. Speier was a member of the California State Senate, representing parts of San Francisco and San Mateo counties.
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