Jackie Speier
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About
Democrat who became the U.S. Representative for California's 14th congressional district in 2008
Before Fame
She earned a B.A. from the University of California, Davis, before getting her law degree from the University of California Hastings College of the Law in 1976.
Trivia
She was shot five times during the November 1978 fact-finding mission to investigate allegations of human rights abuses by the Reverend Jim Jones and his Peoples Temple followers, which led to the mass suicide of over 900 of the Temple's members.
Family Life
She has two children with her first husband Steve, who died in 1994.
Associated With
She endorsed Hillary Clinton for President in 2008.
