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Latest revision as of 23:24, 23 March 2026
Sara Hernandez is a member of the Los Angeles Community College Board of Trustees in California, representing Seat No. 4. She assumed office on December 9, 2022. Her current term ends on December 11, 2026.
Hernandez (Democratic Party) is running for election to the California State Senate to represent District 26. She is on the ballot in the primary on June 2, 2026.[source]
Biography
Sara Hernandez earned a bachelor's degree from Duke University in 2005, a graduate degree from Loyola Marymount University in 2007, and a law degree from Loyola Law School in 2011.[1]
Elections
2026
See also: California State Senate elections, 2026
General election
The primary will occur on June 2, 2026. The general election will occur on November 3, 2026. General election candidates will be added here following the primary.
Nonpartisan primary
Nonpartisan primary election for California State Senate District 26
The following candidates are running in the primary for California State Senate District 26 on June 2, 2026.
Candidate | ||
| Paul Bowers (D) | ||
 | Juan Camacho (D) | |
 | Wendy Carrillo (D) | |
 | Sara Hernandez (D) | |
| Maebe Pudlo (D) | ||
| Sarah Rascón (D) | ||
 | Claudia Agraz (R) | |
| Sang Masog (R) | ||
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2022
See also: Municipal elections in Los Angeles County, California (2022)
General election
General election for Los Angeles Community College Board of Trustees Seat No. 4
Sara Hernandez defeated incumbent Ernest Moreno and Christine Lamonica in the general election for Los Angeles Community College Board of Trustees Seat No. 4 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Sara Hernandez (Nonpartisan) | 54.1 | 524,690 |
| Ernest Moreno (Nonpartisan) | 27.7 | 268,333 | ||
 | Christine Lamonica (Nonpartisan) | 18.2 | 176,595 | |
| Total votes: 969,618 | |||
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2017
| U.S. House, California District 34, 2017 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic |  Jimmy Gomez |
59.2% | 25,569 | |
| Democratic | Robert Lee Ahn | 40.8% | 17,610 | |
| Total Votes | 43,179 | |||
| Source: California Secretary of State | ||||
The election replaced Xavier Becerra (D), who was appointed as California's attorney general.[2] Democrats Jimmy Gomez and Robert Lee Ahn were the top two vote-getters in a primary field of 23 candidates and advanced to the general election. Gomez and Ahn competed in the runoff election on June 6, 2017, when Gomez defeated Ahn by more than 20 percent, 60.1 percent to 30.9 percent.[3] The previous two elections in the district have also featured a general election contest between two Democrats.[4][5][6]
Ahn and Gomez participated in a candidate forum on May 25, 2017, where they discussed the Trump administration, infrastructure, job creation, healthcare, and local issues. During the forum, Ahn emphasized his legal and business background and knowledge of Korean relations, while Gomez highlighted his legislative experience in the California State Assembly and endorsements from progressive organizations like the Bernie Sanders-backed Our Revolution. For an overview of the forum and the candidates' responses, click here.
In the fundraising race, Ahn outpaced Gomez, raising $353,000 between April 1 and May 17. His campaign capital was boosted by an additional $195,000 personal loan. In the same time period, Gomez raised $327,000.[7]
| U.S. House, California District 34 Primary, 2017 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic |
Jimmy Gomez |
25.4% | 10,728 | |
| Democratic | Robert Lee Ahn |
22.3% | 9,415 | |
| Democratic | Maria Cabildo | 10.1% | 4,259 | |
| Democratic | Sara Hernandez | 5.6% | 2,358 | |
| Democratic | Arturo Carmona | 5.2% | 2,205 | |
| Democratic | Wendy Carrillo | 5.2% | 2,195 | |
| Green | Kenneth Mejia | 4.6% | 1,964 | |
| Republican | William Morrison | 3.2% | 1,360 | |
| Democratic | Yolie Flores | 3.2% | 1,368 | |
| Democratic | Alejandra Campoverdi | 2.4% | 1,001 | |
| Democratic | Tracy Van Houten | 2.5% | 1,042 | |
| Democratic | Vanessa Aramayo | 2% | 853 | |
| Democratic | Sandra Mendoza | 1.6% | 674 | |
| Democratic | Steven Mac | 1.6% | 663 | |
| Democratic | Raymond Meza | 1.2% | 509 | |
| Independent | Mark Edward Padilla | 1% | 427 | |
| Libertarian | Angela McArdle | 0.8% | 319 | |
| Democratic | Ricardo De La Fuente | 0.8% | 331 | |
| Democratic | Adrienne Nicole Edwards | 0.4% | 182 | |
| Democratic | Richard Joseph Sullivan | 0.4% | 155 | |
| Democratic | Armando Sotomayor | 0.3% | 118 | |
| Democratic | Tenaya Wallace | 0.2% | 103 | |
| Democratic | Melissa "Sharkie" Garza | 0.2% | 79 | |
| Total Votes | 42,308 | |||
| Source: California Secretary of State |
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Campaign themes
2026
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2022
Sara Hernandez completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Hernandez's responses.
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I started my career as a public school teacher. As a teacher, I founded a non-profit that identifies low-income students and provides them with exceptional educational opportunity and resources throughout their high school years to get them “to and through college”.
After teaching, I earned a law degree and worked at Los Angeles City Hall, where I worked on issues of housing, homelessness, transportation, infrastructure and green space.
Currently I am a land use and environmental attorney, as well as a community college instructor teaching Constitutional Law at Valley College. As an attorney I works on some of the most pressing environmental, land use and housing issues in the region. I also do extensive pro-bono work representing indigent immigrants in asylum proceedings due to the devastating violence in the Northern Triangle and government oppression in Nicaragua.
- 1 in 5 LACCD students are homeless and over half are housing insecure. Homelessness is the most urgent crisis this City is facing and we must address it at the Community College level as well.
- High-quality free college options are essential to an equitable society. The LA College Promise, which offers two free years of community college is a good start but we also need to provide more wraparound services to ensure students succeed
- We need to meet students where they are by utilizing both cutting edge technology as well as personal step-by-step guidance to up the District's enrollment, completion and transfer numbers.
1. 1 in 8 LACCD students are homeless and over half are housing insecure. Homelessness is the most urgent crisis this City is facing and we must address it from every angle. It’s an issue I care deeply about and an area in which I have experience both as an educator and policy maker. I am running to tackle this issue at the community college level.
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2017
The following issues were listed on Hernandez's campaign website. For a full list of campaign themes, click here.
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Campaign finance summary
Campaign finance information for this candidate is not yet available from OpenSecrets. That information will be published here once it is available.
See also
2026 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 5, 2022
- ↑ Los Angeles Times, "Gov. Brown taps California's Rep. Xavier Becerra to be state's first Latino attorney general," December 1, 2016
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "U.S. House of Representatives District 34 - Districtwide Results," accessed June 7,2017
- ↑ KPCC, "Governor calls June 6 election to replace Becerra in House," January 25, 2017
- ↑ Los Angeles Times, "Field of candidates running to succeed Xavier Becerra in Congress keeps growing," February 10, 2017
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "U.S. House of Representatives District 34 - Districtwide Results," April 5, 2017
- ↑ Daily Kos, "Morning Digest: Tennessee Republican Mae Beavers, sponsor of anti-porn bill, running for governor," May 31, 2017
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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