noreen-evans

Noreen Evans
Candidate for Senate
District 2 (Napa, Sonoma)

Assemblywoman Noreen Evans is a candidate for Senate in District 2, currently held by Senator Pat Wiggins, servicing the counties of Humboldt, Lake, Mendocino, Napa, Solano, and Sonoma. Assemblywoman Evans currently represents the 7th State Assembly District, which includes all of Napa County and portions of Solano and Sonoma Counties.

Assemblywoman Evans has four primary legislative priorities: fighting for families and children, protecting our environment, reforming our legal system, and advocating for California’s wine industry. Now in her third term of office, Assemblywoman Evans serves as Chair of the Assembly Budget Committee. In that capacity, she chaired the Budget Conference Committee which forged compromises leading to the final budget proposal. She also works to support the Assembly Speaker’s efforts to modernize and reform California’s budget process. In addition, Assemblywoman Evans is a member of the Committees on Banking and Finance, Governmental Organization, and Judiciary. She also serves on the Joint Legislative Audit Committee. Representing much of California’s premium wine growing region, Assemblywoman Evans has chaired the Assembly Select Committee on Wine for the past four years, where she serves as a liaison between the wine industry and the Assembly.

As a member of the Law Revision Commission, Evans studies intricate legal problems to resolve deficits in our laws and identifies major policy questions for legislative attention. As a member of the Commission on the Status of Women, she also advises the Governor and the Legislature on inequities in laws, practices and conditions that affect women. As a member of the Coastal Conservancy, she works to protect, preserve and restore California’s beautiful coastline.

Prior to her election to the Assembly in 2004, Assemblywoman Evans served two terms on the Santa Rosa City Council, and three years on the Santa Rosa Planning Commission. An attorney by training, Assemblywoman Evans also practiced law for more than twenty years, focusing on civil litigation and appeals.

Assemblywoman Evans has a Juris Doctor degree from the McGeorge School of Law at the University of Pacific and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government from California State University, Sacramento. She lives in Santa Rosa and has three children: Erin, Joel, and Rachel.