Young Kim

Young Oak Kim (née Choe, born October 18, 1962) is a South Korean-born American politician and businesswoman. She is currently serving as the U.S. representative for California's 40th congressional district, after previously representing the 39th congressional district from 2021 to 2023. Her district includes northern parts of Orange County.

In the 2020 United States House of Representatives elections, Kim, along with Michelle Park Steel and Marilyn Strickland, became one of the first Korean-American women elected to the United States Congress.

In 2018, Kim was the Republican nominee in California's 39th congressional district but narrowly lost to Democrat Gil Cisneros in the general election. She defeated Cisneros in a rematch in 2020. Along with Steel and David Valadao, Kim was among the first three Republican candidates to unseat an incumbent House Democrat in California since 1994.

A member of the Republican Party, Young Kim served as the California State Assemblywoman for the 65th district from 2014 to 2016, defeating the incumbent Democrat Sharon Quirk-Silva in 2014, although she lost the seat in a rematch with Quirk-Silva in 2016. Kim was the first South Korean-born Republican woman elected to the California State Legislature.

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