Hannah-Beth Jackson
State Senator
California
Hannah-Beth Jackson represents the 19th Senate District in the California State Senate, which includes all of Santa Barbara County and western Ventura County. An educator, former small business owner and former Deputy District Attorney, she represented the 35th Assembly District from 1998 to 2004 in the California State Assembly.
In the Senate, she is chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and serves on several key committees, including the Budget and Fiscal Review Committee, the Natural Resources Committee, the Labor and Industrial Relations and the Public Safety Committee. She is the author of the nation’s strongest equal pay law for women and was recently named by the Huffington Post as one of 11 women around the country “blazing new trails” in American politics.
Married to retired Superior Court Judge George Eskin, she has a daughter, two stepchildren and six grandchildren.