Assemblywoman Fiona Ma named to national leadership post

Oct. 25, 2011 3:16 PM PT

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The National Conference of State Legislatures has chosen Assemblywoman Fiona Ma (D-San Francisco) to be its overall co-chair for 2011-2012.

In her new leadership position, Ma said she will help “represent the states’ agenda in the continuing debate over the changing state-federal relationship.”

The bipartisan organization works to protect states’ interests in such areas as opposition to unfunded federal mandates, protection of state revenue sources and prevention of “unnecessary preemption” of state laws by Washington.

-- Jean Merl

Politi-Cal

Jean Merl

Jean Merl, a hopeless news junkie, covered regional politics for the Los Angeles Times until 2015. She was raised in southern Ohio but moved with her family to Los Angeles at a tender age, which practically makes her a California native. She holds a master’s degree from UCLA and remembers when Otis Chandler was publisher of The Times and Tom Bradley was mayor of L.A.