Gwen Moore is a former California State Assembly

California State Assembly

The California State Assembly is the lower house of the California State Legislature. There are 80 members in the Assembly, representing an approximately equal number of constituents, with each district having a population of at least 420,000...

woman who served from 1978 until 1994. She represented the 49th District; after the 1990 redistricting, the 49th was renumbered as the 47th district. With term limit

Term limit

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s impending, Moore decided to leave the Assembly with one term left and ran for Secretary of State

California Secretary of State

The Secretary of State of California is the chief elections officer of that U.S. state. The Secretary of State is also responsible for the California State Archives, as well as chartering corporations. The Secretary of State is elected to four year terms, concurrent with the other constitutional...

 in 1994. She lost the primary to Interim Secretary of State Tony Miller, who had succeeded to the office upon the resignation of March Fong Eu

March Fong Eu

March Kong Fong Eu is an American politician of the Democratic Party.Fong earned a Bachelor of Science in dentistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1943 and a Master of Arts from Mills College. She earned a Ed.D...

earlier in 1994.
Gwen is also genuinely involved in the lives of many youth.