Member, United States House of Representatives

From Venice, CA; born in New York, NY, June 28, 1945; education: University High School, Los Angeles, CA, 1962; B.A., Smith College, Northampton, MA, 1966; J.D., Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, MA, 1969; professional: attorney; admitted to the District of Columbia Bar, 1969; counsel for Jones, Day, Reavis and Pogue (law firm); Director and General Counsel for Harman International Industries; Special Counsel, Department of Defense, 1979; Regents' Professor at UCLA, 1999; organizations: L.A. County High Technology Committee; South Bay Alliance for Choice; Center for National Policy; International Human Rights Law Group; member of the Visiting Committee of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; National Commission on Terrorism; family: married to Sidney Harman, 1980; children: Brian Lakes Frank, Hilary Lakes Frank, Daniel Geier Harman, and Justine Leigh Harman; elected to the 103rd, 104th, and 105th Congresses; candidate for Governor of California, 1998; committees: Homeland Security; ranking member, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; elected to the 107th Congress on November 7, 2000; reelected to each succeeding Congress.