Dave Min was first elected to this seat in 2024 with Council support. The largely suburban Los Angeles-area Orange County-based district was previously represented by Council-backed Rep. Katie Porter. This seat shifted seven points to the right in November but Rep. Min narrowly won by 2.8 points.
In Congress, Rep. Min serves on the Natural Resources, Oversight and Reform, and Joint Economic Committees. Rep. Min has been a vocal critic of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk in his first term, including highlighting the mistreatment of immigrants by Trump’s Department of Homeland Security. He also leads the Congressional Progressive Caucus’s Fighting Corruption Task Force aimed at restoring Americans’ faith in government.
Min is a first-generation Korean American and represents many fellow first-generation Americans. Before returning to California to work as a business law professor at UC Irvine School of Law and serve in the California state Senate, he worked as an enforcement attorney at the Securities and Exchange Commission, economic and financial policy advisor to Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and economic policy director at the Center for American Progress.
