California state Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson may be in her last year in office, but the Santa Barbara Democrat hasn’t pulled out the moving boxes just yet.
Entering her eighth year in the Senate, the chair of the Judiciary Committee is a key progressive player in shaping workplace, women’s rights and privacy legislation. She wrote the law, now the target of litigation, requiring corporate boards to include women. And in a marathon 12-hour hearing last year, her committee fended off corporate- and tech-backed attempts to weaken the California Consumer Privacy Act.
