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Dave Min
Official House portrait of Min smiling in front of the U.S. flag, wearing a black suit, white shirt, and orange tie.
Official portrait, 2024
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from California's 47th district
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 3, 2025
Preceded byKatie Porter
Member of the California Senate
from the 37th district
In office
December 7, 2020 – November 30, 2024
Preceded byJohn Moorlach
Succeeded bySteven Choi
Personal details
BornDavid Kunnghee Min
(1976-03-05) March 5, 1976 (age 50)
Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
PartyDemocratic
Spouse
Jane Stoever
​
(m. 2005)​
Children3
EducationUniversity of Pennsylvania (BA, BS)
Harvard University (JD)
SignatureDave Min's signature
WebsiteHouse website
Campaign website
Korean name
Hangul
민건기
[1]
RRMin Geongi
MRMin Kŏn'gi

David Kunnghee Min (Korean: 민건기[1]; born March 5, 1976) is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the U.S. representative from California's 47th congressional district since 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented the 37th district in the California State Senate, which includes portions of Orange County, from 2020 to 2024. He was an assistant law professor at the University of California, Irvine prior to being elected to office.

Min ran in the 2018 election to represent California's 45th congressional district but was defeated in the nonpartisan blanket primary by incumbent Congresswoman Mimi Walters and fellow UC Irvine professor Katie Porter, who went on to defeat Walters in the general election.[2] He was elected to the state senate in the 2020 elections after defeating Costa Mesa mayor and future Orange County Board of Supervisors member Katrina Foley in the primary and then by narrowly defeating incumbent Republican John Moorlach in the November election.[3]

Min defeated Republican nominee Scott Baugh in the 2024 election to represent California's 47th congressional district.[4]

Early life and career

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Min was born on March 5, 1976, in Providence, Rhode Island, and raised in Palo Alto, California.[5] His parents immigrated to the United States from South Korea in 1972 to pursue doctoral degrees at Brown University.[6] He is an Eagle Scout.[7] He attended the University of Pennsylvania, earning a Bachelor of Science in economics from the Wharton School and a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from the School of Arts and Sciences, both in 1999, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.[8][9] He then attended Harvard Law School, where he earned his Juris Doctor in 2002.[10]

After graduating from Harvard Law School, Min worked in financial regulation as a staff attorney at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, as a counsel to Senator Chuck Schumer on the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, and as counsel and senior policy advisor to the Joint Economic Committee.[11][12] In 2009, he joined the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, as its associate director for financial markets policy and supervisor of its Mortgage Finance Working Group.[13][14]

He became an assistant law professor at the University of California, Irvine in 2012 and focused on banking law, capital markets, and real estate finance.[12] The same year, he testified about the impact of Dodd-Frank Financial Regulations to the House Financial Services Subcommittee, one of six instances where he testified before Congress.[7][15] He passed the California bar exam in 2022.[16]

Early political career

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2018 congressional campaign

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Min announced his House candidacy on April 5, 2017, challenging incumbent Rep. Mimi Walters in California's 45th congressional district.[17] Min stated he was inspired to run for Congress after President Donald Trump temporarily suspended immigration from certain predominantly Muslim countries, which he said was a "slap in the face" to the son of two immigrants.[18] Min said there is a new "groundswell of political consciousness" nationally among Korean Americans, with people starting to feel comfortable enough to enter politics.[19]

Min received the endorsement of the California Democratic Party at its State Convention in February 2018 after a contentious floor fight where he barely received the necessary 60% of the vote.[20][21]

Min criticized Walters for living outside of the district and for refusing to hold public or in-person town halls.[6] Min came in third place in the primary election behind Walters and Katie Porter.[2] Porter went on to win the general election.

California State Senate

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Official portrait as state senator, 2023

On January 9, 2019, Min announced his campaign against State Senator John Moorlach to represent the California's 37th State Senate district.[22] In the primary election, Min defeated Costa Mesa Mayor Katrina Foley, thus advancing to the general election to face Moorlach.[23]

Min narrowly defeated Moorlach in the fall of 2020 with 51.2% of the vote.[24] He assumed office on December 7, 2020. His term lasted four years.[25]

In the State Senate, Min chaired the Natural Resources and Water Committee.[26] He played a leading role in California’s push to ban offshore oil and gas drilling, sponsoring the state legislation that would have enacted the prohibition.[26][27]

He was the author of California's 30 by 30 bill, which was signed by Governor Gavin Newsom in 2023, making it the first such law signed into law in the nation.[28] He also carried major clean-energy/decarbonization legislation including SB 1221, in 2024, which authorized neighborhood-scale zero-emission alternatives to aging gas-pipeline investments.[29]

Min also introduced legislation to facilitate the termination of offshore oil drilling leases in Orange County following the 2021 Huntington Beach oil spill, but it died following opposition from the oil industry and trade unions.[30] Some lawmakers, including Bob Hertzberg, expressed concerns about the cost of Min's proposed legislation.[31] In 2024, he led an effort to prohibit investor-owned utilities from charging ratepayers for political activity and advertising.[32]

While in office, Min introduced legislation related to violence, including bills to expand protections for survivors of domestic abuse, study harassment on California's transit systems, and make child custody cases private by default.[33][34][35][36][37] He also led the legislative effort to ban gun shows at county fairs and other public properties statewide, introducing the measure that was later challenged in federal court and ultimately upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.[38][39]

U.S. House of Representatives

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Elections

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2024

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Min announced a second campaign for Congress in January 2023, running for California's 47th congressional district.[40] Katie Porter, the incumbent representative who defeated Min in the 2018 congressional primary, vacated the seat to run in the 2024 United States Senate election in California and endorsed Min to succeed her.[41] He was also endorsed by the Los Angeles Times[42], Planned Parenthood[43], the League of Conservation Voters[44], and the Fraternal Order of Police[45].

Min was arrested in Sacramento for drunk driving during the campaign in 2023, to which he pleaded no contest.[46] He also stated that he would stop drinking.[42] His campaign was opposed by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) which spent over $4.5 million in an unsuccessful campaign to stop Min from advancing in California's top-two primary.[47]

He finished second in the top two primary for CA-47 and advanced to the general election.[48] In the general election, he faced Scott Baugh, a former assemblymember who had previously ran for the seat in 2022. The Associated Press projected Min to be the winner of the election on November 13.[49]

2026

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In 2026, Min won the June top-two primary and will face Republican Jenny Rae Le Reux in the general election.[50]

Tenure

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Min was sworn in on January 3, 2025. Shortly after taking office, he voted against Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act which he described as a "disaster for California families."[51] The bill would have added $3.3 trillion to the national deficit and included over $100 billion in new funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).[52]

Min voted against a GOP immigration bill that would make sexual and domestic violence deportable offenses which he stated would create an "unintended chilling effect for victims of sexual abuse, who might fear they could be deported if they report the crime".[53] He noted that non-citizens convicted of domestic violence and sexual assault were already deportable.[54][55] Min was one of 46 House Democrats to vote for the Laken Riley Act.[56]

In April 2025, Min and Rep. April McClain Delaney led a group of 16 Democratic lawmakers in warning nine major law firms that agreements they had reached with the Trump administration could violate federal and state bribery, extortion, and racketeering laws.[57] When the firms defended the agreements, Min said state and local authorities could investigate them and suggested federal investigations could follow if Democrats returned to power.[58]

In September 2025, as a member of the House Oversight Committee, Min pressed for greater disclosure in the congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, supporting the bipartisan effort to compel the Justice Department to release the Epstein files.[59] In March 2026, during the committee’s investigation, he publicly challenged claims by Epstein associates that they had been unaware of his abuse.[60]

In January 2026, Min participated in a House Democrats field oversight hearing in Minnesota following Operation Metro Surge during which he opposed full-year funding for ICE, calling for the resignation or removal of then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and warned against potential ICE actions in Southern California.[61][62] In February, he officially opposed ICE's plans to open a new office within his district in Irvine.[63]

In May 2026, Min along with Senator Peter Welch and Rep. Raul Ruiz, opened an investigation into potential "pay to play" pardons.[64] The investigation examined whether financial contributions, intermediaries, or personal connections had influenced clemency decisions by the Trump administration.[64] The following month, Min and Welch requested that the White House, Department of Justice, and U.S. Secret Service preserve records related to 17 pardons and commutations.[64][65]

Committee assignments

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Caucus membership

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Personal life

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Min is married to Jane Stoever, a clinical professor of law at UC Irvine.[68] She works on domestic violence issues.[69] They have three children.[6] He is Episcopalian.[70]

Electoral history

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2018

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2018 California's 45th congressional district election
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Mimi Walters (incumbent) 86,764 51.7
Democratic Katie Porter 34,078 20.3
Democratic Dave Min 29,979 17.8
Democratic Brian Forde 10,107 6.0
No party preference John Graham 3,817 2.3
Democratic Kia Hamadanchy 3,212 1.9
Total votes 167,957 100.0
General election
Democratic Katie Porter 158,906 52.1
Republican Mimi Walters (incumbent) 146,383 47.9
Total votes 305,289 100.0
Democratic gain from Republican

2020

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2020 California's 37th State Senate district election
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican John Moorlach (incumbent) 132,275 47.3
Democratic Dave Min 78,293 28.0
Democratic Katrina Foley 68,952 24.7
Total votes 279,520 100.0
General election
Democratic Dave Min 270,522 51.1
Republican John Moorlach (incumbent) 258,421 48.9
Total votes 528,943 100.0
Democratic gain from Republican

2024

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2024 California's 47th congressional district election[71][72]
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Scott Baugh 57,517 32.1
Democratic Dave Min 46,393 25.9
Democratic Joanna Weiss 34,802 19.4
Republican Max Ukropina 26,585 14.8
Republican Long Pham 4,862 2.7
No party preference Terry Crandall 2,878 1.6
Democratic Boyd Roberts 2,570 1.4
No party preference Tom McGrath 1,611 0.9
No party preference Bill Smith 1,062 0.6
Democratic Shariq Zaidi 788 0.4
Total votes 179,068 100.0
General election
Democratic Dave Min 181,721 51.4
Republican Scott Baugh 171,554 48.6
Total votes 353,275 100.0
Democratic hold

2026

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2026 California's 47th congressional district election
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Dave Min (incumbent) 89,482 45.5
Republican Jenny Le Roux 49,208 25.0
Democratic Hunter Miranda 16,849 8.6
Republican Michael Maxsenti 13,757 7.0
Republican Bill Brough 11,769 6.0
Republican Christopher Gonzales 9,810 5.0
No party preference Eric Troutman 3,947 2.0
Libertarian Derrick Reid 1,290 0.7
No party preference Jesus Patino 761 0.4
Total votes 196,873 100.0
General election
Democratic Dave Min (incumbent)
Republican Jenny Le Roux
Total votes 100.0

See also

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References

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  2. 1 2 "2018 California general election results" (PDF). California Secretary of State. Retrieved November 11, 2020.
  3. ↑ Staggs, Brooke (November 4, 2020). "Democrat Dave Min declares victory over GOP incumbent John Moorlach in 37th Senate District". Orange County Register.
  4. ↑ Mason, Melanie (November 12, 2024). "Democrat Dave Min keeps Katie Porter's House seat blue". Politico.
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  7. 1 2 "Dave Min | California State Senate Archive". archive.senate.ca.gov. Retrieved September 13, 2026.
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  9. ↑ "Dave K. Min". Council Korean Americans (CKA). Retrieved September 13, 2026.
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  31. ↑ Willon, Phil (April 27, 2022). "Push to limit California offshore oil after O.C. spill threatened by high taxpayers costs". Daily Pilot. Retrieved May 24, 2022.
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  36. ↑ Cardine, Sara (February 4, 2022). "Bill targeting gun shows, sales on state-owned fairgrounds reintroduced by O.C. senator". Daily Pilot. Retrieved May 24, 2022.
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  38. ↑ "Federal appeals court upholds California law banning gun shows at county fairs". AP News. June 11, 2024. Archived from the original on November 3, 2025. Retrieved September 13, 2026.
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  42. 1 2 "Endorsement: Dave Min for the 47th Congressional District". Los Angeles Times. September 9, 2024. Retrieved September 13, 2026.
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  44. ↑ "LCV Action Fund Announces Additional U.S. House Endorsements for 2024 Election". League of Conservation Voters. Retrieved September 13, 2026.
  45. ↑ "As Baugh Takes NRA Money, Min Stands with Law Enforcement – The Liberal OC". Retrieved September 13, 2026.
  46. ↑ White, Jeremy B. (May 3, 2023). "California lawmaker running for Congress is arrested for drunk driving". Politico. Retrieved May 4, 2023.
  47. ↑ Anguiano, Dani (March 11, 2024). "Pro-Israel group spent millions in tight race for southern California House seat – and lost". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved September 13, 2026.
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  55. ↑ "Dozens of House Dems back GOP immigration bill related to sex crimes". POLITICO. January 16, 2025. Retrieved September 13, 2026.
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