David Lujan

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David Lujan

David Lujan (born April 7, 1965 ) is an American Democratic Party politician . He was a member of the House of Representatives from 2004 to 2011 and the Arizona Senate in 2012/13 .

Lujan, who received a bachelor's degree in marketing from Arizona State University and graduated with a Juris Doctor degree in 1996 , is a partner in a Phoenix law firm. In 2002 he was elected to the Phoenix Union High School District Governing Board . In 2006 he was re-elected to the board, which he chaired in 2007/2008.

Lujan was elected to the House of Representatives of Arizona in 2004, to which he belonged from January 2005 for three legislative terms and in 2009/10 was chairman of the Democrats as a minority leader. He was the leading Democratic member of the Education Committee and a member of the House of Representatives Committee on Budgets. Since he did not run for re-election in 2010, Lujan resigned in January 2011 from this lower chamber of the State Legislature of Arizona. In 2010, Lujan instead ran for the position of Attorney General Arizonas, but was defeated in the Democratic primary .

On January 11, 2012, Lujan was named a member of the Arizona Senate. He succeeded Kyrsten Sinema for the remainder of her mandate after she resigned to run her candidacy for the United States House of Representatives . He represented the 15th constituency of Arizona, which covers most of the city of Phoenix . Lujan did not run for the election in November 2012 and left the Senate in January 2013. In August 2013, he ran in the Democratic primary for the 4th seat on the Phoenix City Council, but was also defeated.

He is the director of the Arizona Center for Economic Progress and describes himself as a progressive who, like Sinema, has learned to work non-partisanly together to achieve results.

Web links

Commons : David Lujan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jeremy Duda: Lujan launches AG campaign via video. In: Arizona Capitol Times , Jan. 14, 2010.
  2. ↑ Jonathan Martin: A Senate Candidate's Image Shifted. Did Her Life Story? In: The New York Times , September 24, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Lujan, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Republican Party politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1965