Leon E. Panetta

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Date	Party	Office	Votes	Result
11-02-1976	Democratic	CD-16	104545	Win
11-07-1978	Democratic	CD-16	104550	Win
11-04-1980	Democratic	CD-16	158360	Win
11-02-1982	Democratic	CD-16	142630	Win
11-06-1984	Democratic	CD-16	153377	Win
11-04-1986	Democratic	CD-16	128151	Win
11-08-1988	Democratic	CD-16	177542	Win
11-06-1990	Democratic	CD-16	134236	Win
11-03-1992	Democratic	CD-17	151565	Win

Candidate Biography:

Born: June 28, 1938 in Monterey, CA
Married: Sylvia Marie Varni
Children: Christopher, Carmelo, and James

1966-1969: Legislative Assistant, US Senator Thomas Kuchel
1969: Assistant to Secretary Robert Finch, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
1969-1970: Director, Office of Civil Rights, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
1970-1971: Executive Assistant, New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay
1993: Resigned from the United States House of Representatives on January 21.
1993-1994: Director, Office of Management of the Budget
1994-1997: Chief of Staff, President Bill Clinton
1998-2009: Director, Leon & Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy
2004-2009: Trustee, Junior Statesmen Foundation
2007-2009: Member, Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) Board of Directors
2006: Member, Iraq Study Group
200?-2009: Co-Chair, California Forward
2009-2011: Director, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
2011-2013: U.S. Secretary of Defense

• HE KILLED BIN LADEN: Because Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) forces may not legally operate in Pakistan, the military team that killed Osama bin Laden in Abbotabad, Pakisan on May 2, 2011 was temporarily placed under the command of Panetta for the duration of the operation.
• Sylvia Panetta was a 2007 Woman of the Year (Selected by Senator Abel Maldonado)
• Panetta was a 2024 Inductee to the California Hall of Fame.

Source: "AP sources: Panetta to Pentagon, Petraeus to CIA" by Anne Gearan and Kimberly Dozier, Associated Press (4/27/2011)