Ralph C. Dills

CA Blue Book

Date	Party	Office	Votes	Result
11-08-1938	Democratic	AD-69	22020	Win
11-05-1940	Democratic	AD-69	41202	Win
11-03-1942	Democratic	AD-69	26730	Win
11-07-1944	Democratic	AD-69	47521	Win
11-05-1946	Democratic	AD-69	35785	Win
11-02-1948	Democratic	AD-69	68978	Win
11-08-1966	Democratic	SD-32	72746	Win
11-03-1970	Democratic	SD-32	90365	Win
11-05-1974	Democratic	SD-28	73959	Win
11-07-1978	Democratic	SD-28	77258	Win
11-02-1982	Democratic	SD-30	88668	Win
11-04-1986	Democratic	SD-30	80926	Win
11-06-1990	Democratic	SD-30	63771	Win
11-08-1994	Democratic	SD-28	95735	Win

Candidate Biography:

Ralph Clinton Dills
Born: February 19, 1910 in Rosston, Texas
Married: Effie Elizabeth (m. 1935, d. 1961), Marguerite B. (m. 1961), Elizabeth Ging Lee (m. 1970, d. 2000), Wendi Lewellen Lai (m. 2001)
Step-children: Gregory Lee Dills and Leighton Wenn Lai (adopted 1993)
Family: Brother of Clayton A. Dills
Died: May 16, 2002 in Rocklin, CA

1944: U.S. Presidential Elector
1948: Early Primary Candidate for CD-18 (Withdrew)
1948: U.S. Presidential Elector
1949: Resigned from the State Assembly on June 1.
1949-1966: Justice, Los Angeles County Municipal Court
1982: President, National Society of State Legislators

• LEGISLATION: Author of the Nejedly-Z'berg-Dills Solid Waste Management and Resource Recovery Act of 1972 (created the State Solid Waste Management Board) 
• LEGISLATION: Author of the SB 839 (Stats. 1977, ch. 1159) "Ralph C. Dills Act", which allows collective-bargaining for public employee unions. 
• TENURE: Dills was the longest serving member of the California Legislature (43 years total).
• Wendi Lewellen Lai was both his second wife and the daughter of his first wife Bette.
• Had a brother who served in the same legislative house concurrently. 
• PLACENAME: Ralph C. Dills Park in the city of Paramount
• PLACENAME: The Dills Vocational Technology Center at El Camino College was named for Senator Dills.

Source: California Blue Book (1950), (1967)
Source: California Assembly Handbook (1981)