Pedro Nava

Who is Pedro Nava?

California State Assembly member Pedro Nava grew up and attended public schools in Southern California. He studied at San Bernardino Valley College, graduated from California State University, San Bernardino, and obtained his law degree from the University of California, Davis, Martin Luther King Jr. Hall, School of Law. Before attending law school, he managed a program for at-risk high school students at the Chaffey Unified School District. After graduation from law school, Nava worked in job training programs for the economically disadvantaged in Fresno. Nava later became a Deputy District Attorney in the Fresno County DA's Office, involved in Targeted Narcotics Prosecution; headed up the county-wide Drug Crime Task Force; was a Board member of the Fresno Rape Crisis Center; and was President of the Fresno Community College President's EOP&S Advisory Committee. In 1985, he joined the Santa Barbara DA's office where, for a time, he was assigned to the Consumer/Business Law Section. From 1987 until his election in 2004 Nava was a civil litigator, primarily representing nurses and health care practitioners. Nava also served on the California Coastal Commission from 1997 until 2004, appointed by then California State Assembly Speaker Cruz Bustamante, where he earned the highest environmental protection vote awarded by the Sierra Club.