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Mike Levin
Michael Ted Levin (/ˈlɛvɪn/ LEH-vin; born October 20, 1978) is an American politician and attorney serving as the U.S. representative for California's 49th congressional district since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, Levin represents most of San Diego's North County, including Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, as well as a portion of southern Orange County. He is currently serving his fourth term. Levin flipped the historically Republican-held seat in 2018 after the retirement of Darrell Issa and has won four consecutive elections in the competitive district. His legislative work has focused on spent nuclear fuel removal at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, veterans' affairs, and environmental policy.
Levin was born in Inglewood, California, and raised in Lake Forest, Orange County. His mother is Mexican-American and his father is Jewish. Levin was raised in both the Jewish and Catholic faiths. His maternal grandparents immigrated to the United States from Mexico as children, arriving with little formal education or money. They eventually established a business distributing Wurlitzer jukeboxes in Los Angeles, enabling Levin's mother and her four sisters to attend college.
Levin graduated from Loyola High School in Los Angeles in 1997. He attended Stanford University, where he was elected student body president, and graduated in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. After Stanford, Levin served as a Coro Fellow. He earned a Juris Doctor from Duke University School of Law in 2005, focusing on environmental law.
After law school, Levin worked as an attorney specializing in energy and environmental law, focusing on regulatory compliance and government affairs.
Levin co-founded CleanTech OC, a trade group promoting sustainable energy in Orange County, and served as vice president of Better Energy Systems, a cleantech startup in Berkeley, California. In 2011, he was featured in OC Metro's "40 Under 40" for his work at FlexEnergy, a company that developed technology to capture and use methane from landfills and wastewater treatment facilities. From 2014 to 2017, he was the director of government affairs at FuelCell Energy and served on the board of the Center for Sustainable Energy in San Diego.
Levin was also active in Democratic politics, serving as executive director of the Democratic Party of Orange County. In 2016, he joined Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign as a member of the national finance committee.
On March 8, 2017, Levin announced his candidacy for California's 49th congressional district. The district had historically been one of Southern California's more Republican seats, but redistricting after the 2010 census cut out most of its heavily Republican inland portion, making it significantly more competitive. Darrell Issa had nearly been defeated in 2016 as Hillary Clinton carried the district, and announced his retirement in January 2018.
At a town hall event that Issa held on March 11, 2017, Levin publicly confronted Issa and mentioned a book he had sent him in 2016, Climate Change for Beginners. Levin charged that Issa's solution to climate problems "is to build more natural gas plants and to keep the nuclear energy plants online for longer.... I think that's an unfathomable proposal for a progressive and environmentally-friendly place like San Diego."
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Mike Levin
Michael Ted Levin (/ˈlɛvɪn/ LEH-vin; born October 20, 1978) is an American politician and attorney serving as the U.S. representative for California's 49th congressional district since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, Levin represents most of San Diego's North County, including Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, as well as a portion of southern Orange County. He is currently serving his fourth term. Levin flipped the historically Republican-held seat in 2018 after the retirement of Darrell Issa and has won four consecutive elections in the competitive district. His legislative work has focused on spent nuclear fuel removal at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, veterans' affairs, and environmental policy.
Levin was born in Inglewood, California, and raised in Lake Forest, Orange County. His mother is Mexican-American and his father is Jewish. Levin was raised in both the Jewish and Catholic faiths. His maternal grandparents immigrated to the United States from Mexico as children, arriving with little formal education or money. They eventually established a business distributing Wurlitzer jukeboxes in Los Angeles, enabling Levin's mother and her four sisters to attend college.
Levin graduated from Loyola High School in Los Angeles in 1997. He attended Stanford University, where he was elected student body president, and graduated in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. After Stanford, Levin served as a Coro Fellow. He earned a Juris Doctor from Duke University School of Law in 2005, focusing on environmental law.
After law school, Levin worked as an attorney specializing in energy and environmental law, focusing on regulatory compliance and government affairs.
Levin co-founded CleanTech OC, a trade group promoting sustainable energy in Orange County, and served as vice president of Better Energy Systems, a cleantech startup in Berkeley, California. In 2011, he was featured in OC Metro's "40 Under 40" for his work at FlexEnergy, a company that developed technology to capture and use methane from landfills and wastewater treatment facilities. From 2014 to 2017, he was the director of government affairs at FuelCell Energy and served on the board of the Center for Sustainable Energy in San Diego.
Levin was also active in Democratic politics, serving as executive director of the Democratic Party of Orange County. In 2016, he joined Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign as a member of the national finance committee.
On March 8, 2017, Levin announced his candidacy for California's 49th congressional district. The district had historically been one of Southern California's more Republican seats, but redistricting after the 2010 census cut out most of its heavily Republican inland portion, making it significantly more competitive. Darrell Issa had nearly been defeated in 2016 as Hillary Clinton carried the district, and announced his retirement in January 2018.
At a town hall event that Issa held on March 11, 2017, Levin publicly confronted Issa and mentioned a book he had sent him in 2016, Climate Change for Beginners. Levin charged that Issa's solution to climate problems "is to build more natural gas plants and to keep the nuclear energy plants online for longer.... I think that's an unfathomable proposal for a progressive and environmentally-friendly place like San Diego."