Xavier Becerra is an American attorney and politician who is the governor-elect of California. Becerra served from 2021 to 2025 as the 25th United States secretary of health and human services under President Joe Biden and from 2017 to 2021 as the 33rd attorney general of California.
Becerra was elected governor of California in 2026. Upon taking office, he will become the first Latino governor of California since 1875, when Romualdo Pacheco ascended to the governorship, and the first elected by popular vote.
Born and raised in Sacramento to Mexican immigrants, Becerra received his B.A. and J.D. from Stanford University. After college, he was an administrative assistant to state senator Art Torres and a deputy attorney general in the California Department of Justice. He later served one term in the California State Assembly from 1990 to 1992.
First elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1992, Becerra chaired the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the House Democratic Caucus. In 2017, Governor Jerry Brown appointed him attorney general after Kamala Harris was elected to the U.S. Senate.
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