Career
Brown was first elected to the State Assembly in 1992, after Bev Hansen declined to run for re-election as the 1990 "re-districting" had made the district significantly more Democratic. Brown defeated the Republican former Sonoma County Supervisor Janet Nicholas in that election.
She was expected to run for the California State Senate in 1998 as she was termed out from the Assembly and Senator Mike Thompson, who was running for congress, was termed out as well. However, Brown passed over that opportunity, leaving the nomination to California Integrated Waste Management Board member and former Humboldt County Supervisor Wesley Chesbro.
After Mike Cale, who had served on the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors for 10 years, having replaced Janet Nicholas, resigned in 2001, Brown was appointed to his place. Brown was the first woman on the board since the resignation of Janet Nicholas 10 years earlier. She was re-elected in 2004 and narrowly re-elected in 2008.
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