Nancy Pelosi
U.S. Representative from CA, District 11
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Nancy Pelosi is a California Democratic congresswoman, former Speaker of the House, and the first woman to hold that position, announcing retirement in 2025.
Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi represents California's 11th Congressional District, encompassing most of San Francisco, as a Democrat first elected in a 1987 special election and now in her twentieth term. The daughter of Baltimore Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr., Pelosi graduated from Trinity College in Washington, raised five children in San Francisco, and rose through California Democratic Party politics to national prominence. She was elected House Democratic Whip in 2001 and subsequently Minority Leader before becoming, in 2007, the first woman ever elected Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. She served as Speaker from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to 2023, presiding over passage of landmark legislation including the Affordable Care Act, Dodd-Frank financial reform, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and overseeing two impeachments of a president. After stepping down from Democratic leadership following the 2022 elections, Pelosi has served as speaker emerita, holding no formal committee assignments in the 119th Congress while focusing on democracy, U.S. policy toward China and Taiwan, reproductive rights, and San Francisco. In November 2025, she announced she would not seek reelection and would retire from Congress at the end of her term.