Anna M. Caballero

Infobox State Representative


name =Anna M. Caballero


state_assembly =California
district =28th
term_start3 =December 4, 2006 [ [http://www.imakenews.com/priorityfocus/e_article000710229.cfm?x=b11,0,w League of California Cities. "2007 California State Legislature Convenes." "Priority Focus"] . Copyright © 2006 League of California Cities. Accessed on August 17. 2007.]
term_end3 =
preceded3 =Simon Salinas
succeeded3 =Incumbent
nationality =American
date of birth =
place of birth =
date of death =
place of death =
spouse = Juan Uranga
children = Three [ [http://www.joincalifornia.com/candidate/6484 Candidate Biography] ]
profession =Politician, Lawyer
alma_mater =University of California, San Diego
religion =
party=Democratic

Anna M. Caballero is a Democratic member of the California State Assembly who was elected to serve the 28th Assembly District in November 2006 and is running unopposed in 2008. [ [http://smartvoter.org/2008/11/04/ca/state/race/caasm28/ 2008 CA Assembly Candidates] ] Caballero chairs the California Assembly Select Committee on Youth Violence Prevention. [ [http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/newcomframeset.asp?committee=391 California Assembly Select Committee on Youth Violence Prevention Members] ] Caballero had previously served as Mayor and a Council member of Salinas, California.

Born to a family of copper miners, Ms. Caballero moved to the Salinas Valley 25 years ago to work for [http://www.crla.org California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA)] . She attended college at University of California, San Diego. As an attorney, she represented striking farm workers and fought side by side with unions to prevent plant closures. She founded a law firm, [http://www.cmmlaw.com/ Caballero, Matcham & McCarthy] , in 1982 to provide low cost legal service. The business received several awards. Caballero was recognized with the Athena Award for entrepreneurial excellence.

Caballero served on the Planning Commission and was later elected to the Salinas City Council in 1991. She was then elected mayor in 1998. As Mayor, she carefully navigated Salinas through budgetary problems and managed to keep Salinas's libraries open through a denotations program. Caballero won elected to the State Assembly in 2006.

Caballero has also served as the Executive Director of Partners for Peace, a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing the community together to prevent gang violence and focus on literacy, early childhood education, and providing services to families. Caballero is also a wife and mother. Her husband, Juan Uranga, is the Director of the Center for Community Advocacy in Salinas.

Information on her children is not available other than for her son, Miguel Martin Uranga, age 22, who was arrested on August 23, 2008 on charges including two counts of second-degree robbery, use of a firearm, commercial burglary and attempted carjacking in Salinas. [ [http://www.thecalifornian.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080905/NEWS01/80905037 Salinas Californian] Accessed on September 5. 2008.]

Links and sources

* [http://www.crla.org/ California Rural Legal Assistance]
* [http://democrats.assembly.ca.gov/members/a28/bio.aspx Assembly Biography]

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