Howard Berman

Howard Berman

Howard Lawrence Berman (* 15. April 1941 in Los Angeles ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party and since 1983 a member of the US House of Representatives for California .

In the 2012 election he was defeated by his Democratic competitor Brad Sherman .

biography

After attending Hamilton High School in Los Angeles, he studied from 1959 to 1962 at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and completed this course with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He completed a subsequent postgraduate degree in law at the UCLA Law School in 1965 with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). After his admission he worked as a lawyer and between 1966 and 1967 volunteer with the program Volunteers in Service to America .

Berman began his political career in 1973 when he was elected a member of the California State Assembly , to which he not only belonged until 1982, but whose majority leader he was as group chairman of the Democrats from 1974 to 1980. In addition, he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention for the nomination of the Democratic US presidential candidate in 1968, 1976 and 1984 .

In 1982 he was finally elected to the US House of Representatives and represented there after 13 subsequent re-elections since January 3, 1983 the 26th and since January 3, 2003 the 28th congressional electoral district of California. Howard Berman has been Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs since 2007 and is currently also a member of the House Committee on the Judiciary .

Web links

• Howard Berman in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Howard Berman in the nndb (English)
• Web presence at the congress