Janet Nguyen
Politician
1976 –
Who is Janet Nguyen?
Janet Q. Nguyen is the County Supervisor from the First District of Orange County, California. She won her seat following a historic special election where two Vietnamese-American candidates received half of the total votes cast in a field of 10, separated from each other by only 7 votes. She was sworn in on March 27, 2007, after a lengthy court battle. She won a full, four-year term in 2008 in another historic election when all three major candidates were Vietnamese Americans. She was reelected to a third term in 2012.
She is the youngest person to be elected to the board of supervisors, the first woman to be elected from the First District, and the first Vietnamese-American county supervisor in the United States. Prior to her election to the Board of Supervisors, she served as a city council member for the City of Garden Grove.
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- Born
- 1976
Ho Chi Minh City - Spouses
- Ethnicity
- Vietnamese American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of California, Irvine
- Lived in
- Orange County
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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