Diane Dixon

1What can this job do?

Your assemblymember is your other vote in the California Legislature — the 80-member lower house. Like the Senate, the Assembly writes and votes on state laws and the budget; all bills must pass both houses. This is the more local of your two legislative seats, with smaller districts closer to your community.

✗It does NOT make federal law or run city and county governments, and one member cannot pass a law alone — it takes a majority of the Legislature and the Governor's signature.

2What has this person done with it?

We don't yet track a record of this official's actions here. For state offices, the public record is unusually good: recorded votes and bill histories are at leginfo.legislature.ca.gov, and campaign finance is at the Secretary of State's Cal-Access. Those primary sources are the place to look — we'd rather send you there than summarize selectively.

We only log matters of public record, in the same format for every official — never opinion or news coverage.

3How does this affect you?

This is YOUR one assembly member — the person your district elects to the lower house of California's Legislature. The Assembly helps write California's laws and budget. Because you live in the 72nd Assembly district, this is your specific seat in the Assembly; the other districts each elect their own.

4How do you change it?

This is an elected seat with a two-year term, chosen by district — you vote for the one assemblymember who represents your district. Because the term is only two years, this seat is on the ballot every even-year election. Registration, polling place, and mail ballots: Orange County Registrar of Voters (ocvote.gov).

☑This seat is expected on the ballot November 3, 2026 — that's the county's forecast, not yet the official notice of election.