Tasha Boerner

First elected to the Assembly in November 2018, she now represents California’s 77th Assembly District. Her path has run through an intraparty Assembly contest, a second-term race against a former federal agent and a redistricting-era campaign against a Republican business and investment figure.

FORMATION

Tasha Nicolle Boerner was born on February 1, 1973. She received a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1995.

The account does not identify an earlier employer, profession or civic appointment before her service in Encinitas.

THE JOB BEFORE THE JOB

Before joining the Legislature, Boerner served on the Encinitas City Council.

The available account does not provide the dates of her council tenure, the circumstances of her election to that body or the municipal issues on which she worked. It does establish the basic route: local elected office came first, and the Legislature followed.

THE ASSEMBLY RACES

Boerner was first elected to the California State Assembly in November 2018. Her opponent was Elizabeth Warren, a fellow Democrat. The contest was therefore between two candidates of the same party, and Boerner prevailed.

Two years later, Boerner sought another term. In 2020, she defeated Melanie Burkholder, a former Secret Service agent, and won a second Assembly term.

The next election came with a new district number. In 2022, Boerner announced that she would seek a third term, this time in the 77th Assembly District. Her general-election opponent was Dan Downey, a Republican entrepreneur and investment adviser. Boerner now serves as the assemblymember for that district.

Taken together, the elections supply the most complete account of her state career. The 2018 race put her in the Legislature after service in Encinitas. The 2020 result returned her for a second term. The 2022 campaign placed her before voters in the 77th District following redistricting.

THE 2026 ENDORSEMENTS

Boerner also entered the endorsement politics of the 2026 California governor’s race. She endorsed Tom Steyer.

That choice followed four earlier endorsements in the same gubernatorial election. Each of those four candidates later dropped out.

The episode is one of the few recorded actions here beyond her own campaigns for office. It places her publicly in the contest over who should next lead California, though it does not establish any policy agreement, campaign role or formal alliance beyond the endorsements themselves.

THE BOTTOM LINE

Boerner’s identifiable public profile is built around the move from Encinitas municipal government to the State Assembly and the elections that kept her there. She won an all-Democratic Assembly race in 2018, secured a second term against Burkholder in 2020 and campaigned for a third term in the newly numbered 77th District against Downey in 2022.

The facts supplied do not identify a signature bill, committee position, budget appropriation, legislative vote or sustained policy campaign. They therefore do not support naming one issue as Boerner’s policy signature or one organized constituency as the principal beneficiary of her work. Beyond that, any claim about whom she most consistently fights for, or which interests she places first in policymaking, would go beyond the established record.