Although the California Democratic Party (CADEM) is a separate legal entity, delegates to the state convention and to the state executive board are granted to each county central committee as well as to each assembly district and to elected officials. In addition, the CADEM requires “gender equity” among delegates.
Gender, as defined by the CADEM rules, is “self-identified female” (“Female”/”SIF”) or “other than self-identified female” (“Male”/”Other”/”OSIF”).
The DPCCC has no direct association with non-DPCCC delegates, but we are listing all delegates representing any part of Contra Costa County here in the interest of transparency.
DPCCC DELEGATES
DPCCC delegates are selected at the reorganizational meeting in January of odd-numbered years. Any member of the DPCCC is eligible to run for delegate. The delegate selection process, however, is somewhat complicated to ensure fairness and equity.
The committee first caucuses by supervisorial district. Within each district, the delegates are allocated based on the number of elected/appointed members on the committee plus one additional delegate. The districts conduct up to three rounds of selection. In the first round, all elected and appointed members are eligible. This is usually automatic as there are more delegate seats per district than there are elected/appointed members. In the second round, all club representatives and alternates are eligible. If any delegate seats are still available after the second round, then any associate members living in the district are eligible.
After the caucuses, the committee comes back together to review and confirm the results as well as to determine gender equity. The remaining at-large seats are then up for selection with the number of seats per gender offered to ensure gender equity.
In 2025, the DPCCC had 43 seats to allocate. After the district caucuses, the five at-large seats were determined to be allocated to all other than self-identified females (male and nonbinary) for a total of twenty-five (25) women and eighteen (18) men, before replacements were made due to vacancies.
E-Board representatives are usually selected in the spring (April or May). Each DPCCC E-Board member must already be a DPCCC delegate.
AREA
SIF (FEMALE)
OSIF (OTHER/MALE)
DISTRICT 1 (Allocated 8 Delegates)
Maria Alegria Joey D. Smith Cheryl Sudduth
Devin T. Murphy Michael Nye Jamin Pursell Harpreet Sandhu Neil Tsutsui
DISTRICT 2 (Allocated 10* Delegates)
Sarah Butler Susan Hildreth Brodie Hilp Cecilia Minalga Michelle Petersen Katie Ricklefs Marisol Rubio Alex Rubio-Talvera Renee Zeimer
Richard Adler
DISTRICT 3 (Allocated 5 Delegates)
Tamela Hawley Sue Higgins Susana Williams
David Klatch Addison Peterson
DISTRICT 4 (Allocated 8 Delegates)
Kathryn Durham-Hammer Ady Olvera Laura Patch Shirley Shelangoski Ena Silva
Matthew Brown Danny Espinoza Walter Miller
DISTRICT 5 (Allocated 7* Delegates)
Rebecca Barrett Courtney Masella-O’Brien Nadine Peyrucain Amy Scott-Slovick Jamela Smith
Jonathan Bash Tom Lawson
AT-LARGE (Allocated 5 Delegates)
Ahmad Anderson Brandon Dawkins Rafael Menis Cameron Sasai Cesar Zepeda
43 total DSCC Delegates (25 Female/SIF, 18 Male/OSIF) [r]-indicates replacement delegate added after the resignation of another DSCC representative which may also alter the number of delegates in comparison to the original allocation. Gender equity was unable to be obtained as all OSIF (Other/Male) candidates were given a seat leaving only SIF (Female) seats available for appointments.
ADEM DELEGATES
Assembly District Election Meetings (ADEMs) are how one-third of the delegates of the California Democratic Party are elected. They are elected in January of each odd-numbered year, for a two-year term. Any Democrat registered in the assembly district is eligible to run. All interested Democrats must file a filing fee as well as a statement to the CDP in November or December of the prior year. (Filing fees may be waived.) Seven persons of each gender category (Self-Identified Female or Other than Self-Identified Female; male and non-binary people are both in this latter category) are elected to be delegates to the state convention. From these fourteen (14), one person is elected to represent the Assembly District on the CDP Executive Board (E-Board).
ADEM elections have historically required in-person attendance at a designated location posted on the CDP website, but the 2021 election was conducted by mail due to COVID-19.
DPCCC has no direct role in the election of this portion of delegates. They are elected by all the registered Democratic voters of each Assembly District who request a ballot from the CDP.
The delegates for Assembly Districts which intersect with Contra Costa County are listed below for information.
A delegate with an asterisk (*) is the E-Board Representative.
AREA
FEMALE (SIF)
OTHER (OSIF)
AD11 (14 Delegates)
Coming March 4, 2025
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AD14 (14 Delegates)
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AD15 (14 Delegates)
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AD16 (14 Delegates)
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APPOINTED DELEGATES
Each legislative, congressional, and statewide elected official is eligible to appoint delegates as are party officers. These are known as PLEO (Party Leaders and Elected Officials) appointments. The DPCCC will list the PLEO appointments once we are able to determine who they are.