district predecessor state_assembly nationality party term_start residence article_title name occupation
44th jeff gorell california american democratic december 1 , 2014 thousand oaks , california jacqui irwin
 jacqui irwin politician
jacqui irwin

jacqui irwin is an american politician currently serving in the california state assembly .
she is a democrat representing the 44th district , encompassing parts of ventura county .
prior to being elected to the state assembly , she was a three term thousand oaks city council member , and previous to that was on the thousand oaks planning commission .
in her first run for a partisan office , she defeated conservative republican rob mccoy .
irwin graduated from the university of california , san diego , where she was an academic all american swimmer .
she had worked as an engineer at the johns hopkins university applied physics lab , on the trident missile project and at teledyne systems before raising her children , matthew , kathryn , and luke .
