Mark DeSaulnier

• Biography:

  Assembly Member Mark DeSaulnier was elected to the California State Assembly in November 2006 to represent the 11th Assembly District, which includes the Cities of Antioch, Clayton, Concord, Hercules, Martinez, Pinole, and Pittsburg, as well as the unincorporated areas of Bay Point, Bayview-Montalvin, Clyde, Crockett, El Sobrante, Mountain View, Pacheco, Port Costa, Rodeo, Tara Hills and Vine Hill.

  In the State Assembly, Mark chairs the Assembly Transportation Committee as well as the Select Committees on Growth Management and Air Quality. DeSaulnier lends his expertise in local government and state regulation to the Assembly Committees on Appropriations, Human Services, and Labor and Employment.

  DeSaulnier has authored forty bills and coauthored numerous others for the 2007-2008 Legislative Session. His bills address the need to fight truancy among school children, to push back sea-level rise on our coastline, to remove unsafe guns from the hands of children and thieves, to improve indoor air quality in our schools, to better manage state-wide growth and to create opportunities for at-risk youth.

  During his four terms on the Board of Supervisors, DeSaulnier addressed the local and regional issues of Contra Costa County on the California Air Resources Board, the Association of Bay Area Governments, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.

  Prior to becoming a supervisor, he served as the Mayor of Concord and was a City Councilmember from 1991 to 1993. He also served on the Concord Planning Commission and was a member of the University of California Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program Advisory Committee.

  In 2003 he participated as a fellow (sponsored by Fannie Mae) to the Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government Leadership Program and Symposium on Affordable Housing.

  Mark was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, DeSaulnier earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the College of the Holy Cross. An avid runner, he has completed twenty-one marathons. DeSaulnier lives in Concord with his two sons and was a longtime restaurateur prior to his election to the Legislature.