Dave
Min

Dave Min is an attorney and economic policy expert who has championed climate and environmental legislation in the California state Senate.

Min is a first-generation Korean American who attended the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania before earning his law degree from Harvard University. His career has included roles as an enforcement attorney at the Securities and Exchange Commission, economic and financial policy advisor for U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer, economic policy director at the Center for American Progress, and business law professor at UC Irvine School of Law. In 2019, he was elected to represent California’s 37th District in the state Senate, where he supported bills to require all autonomous vehicles to be zero-emission by 2030 and fund the protection of California’s largest unprotected wetlands habitat. Min also introduced a bill to ban offshore oil drilling in state waters and authored the country’s first legislation to enact President Biden’s goals of conserving 30% of our lands and waters by 2030.

As a representative, Min will continue to push to protect public lands and drive clean energy innovation with a focus on reducing emissions and decarbonizing industries, such as cement production, aviation, and heavy-duty transit. He holds an 88% lifetime score from California Environmental Voters and earned a perfect 100% score in 2023.

Min joins the U.S. House to fill the seat of former Representative Katie Porter, who vacated the seat to run for U.S. Senate and earned a 97% lifetime score on LCV’s National Environmental Scorecard.

“Combating climate change and preserving our biodiversity, while also making sure there is a just transition that does not abandon or penalize lower-income or minority communities, is the defining challenge of our time. If we do not immediately reduce, and in short order eliminate, our reliance on fossil fuels and the carbon that they emit when burned, we are damning future generations to an apocalyptic scenario.” – LCVAF Questionnaire