Bio

• Age: 54
• Education:  University of Southern California, MA (1981); California Polytechnic University, BA (1979)
• From: Washington, DC
• Ethnicity: Hispanic
• Gender: Female

Solis is a liberal member of Congress who is better known for her efforts on energy issues than for her work on labor. Nonetheless, labor leaders embraced the announcement. Solis, whose father was a Teamsters shop steward in Mexico, was born in Los Angeles in 1957.

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Last Job

• U.S. House of Representatives, D-Calif.

Other Jobs

• State of California, state senator
• Office of Management and Budget, management analyst, civil rights division
• White House, office of hispanic affairs, editor-in-chief

(The Washington Post/Nikki Kahn)

Connections

• Associated with labor unions (What's this?)

Financial Disclosure

View Hilda L. Solis's official financial disclosure statements, which describe the sources, types and amounts of income earned in a given year.

• 2009 (PDF)