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Anna Caballero
Candidate for Senate
District 12 (Merced, Salinas)

Assemblymember Anna Caballero is running for Senate District 12 and is currently serving in the assembly representing District 28. Assemblymember Caballero was elected to serve the 28th Assembly District in November of 2006 and is a strong advocate for public safety, affordable housing, quality health care and education.

Now in her second term, Assemblymember Caballero has been re-appointed as chair of the Committee on Local Government, and as a member of the following committees: Accountability and Administrative Review; Budget; Budget Subcommittee No. 3 on Resources; Water, Parks and Wildlife; and, the Select Committee on Renewable Energy. In recognition of her extensive work to prevent youth violence and gang membership, Caballero has also been re-appointed as chair of the Select Committee on Youth Violence Prevention.

Born to a family of copper miners, Assemblymember Caballero graduated from the University of California San Diego magna cum laude with a B.A. in Sociology, and earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California Los Angeles. She moved to the Salinas Valley 30 years ago to work for California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA). As an attorney, she represented striking farm workers and fought side by side with unions to prevent plant closures.

Seeing the need for legal representation at a price working families could afford, Caballero and two colleagues founded a law firm, Caballero, Matcham & McCarthy, in 1982. The business received many awards, and she was personally recognized by the Salinas Valley Chamber of Commerce with the Athena Award for entrepreneurial excellence. Assemblymember Caballero took a leave from her law practice to serve as the executive director of Partners for Peace, a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing the community together to prevent gang violence, with a focus on literacy, early childhood education, youth employment and empowerment, and providing services to families.

Assemblymember Caballero is also a wife, mother, and grandmother. Her husband, Juan Uranga, is the director of the Center for Community Advocacy in Salinas.