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Caroline Menjivar, MSW

Chair,
Budget Subcommittee #3 on Health and Human Services
Commissioner,
California Commission on the Status of Women and Girls

Senator Caroline Menjivar (she/her/ella) took the Oath of Office on December 5, 2022, and represents Burbank and the San Fernando Valley in California’s 20th Senate District. She is a first-generation American, daughter of Salvadorean immigrants, who was born and raised in the very communities she now represents.

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SD20 City Features

Canoga Park

Canoga Park was originally called Owensmouth, an ode to the Owens River water San Fernando Valley developers vied for, and inspiration for the storyline of Chinatown.

Lake View Terrace

A picturesque neighborhood in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, and originally called Tujunga Terrace, settlement began in the 1870s.

Mission Hills

Mission Hills has the unique distinction of being intersected by the I-5, I-405, and SR-118 freeways!

Pacoima

Pacoima history can be traced back more than 1,500 years with the Fernandeno-Tataviam tribe.

Reseda

Previously known as Marian, Reseda was designated as one of the “Wonder Towns of the San Fernando Valley” by L.A. Times publisher and real estate tycoon, Harrison Gray Otis, in 1912.

San Fernando

The soul of the San Fernando Valley, establishment in 1874 earned San Fernando the title, “First City of the Valley.”

Sun Valley

Named Roberts in the 1870s, then to Roscoe in 1886, in 1948 residents voted to rename the neighborhood Sun Valley.

Sunland-Tujunga

Known for its spectacular canyon tranquility, wildlife and flora, Sunland-Tujunga boasts a “Gateway to Angeles National Forest,” and gives residents the feeling that they’re a million miles away from the city.

Sylmar

In the late 1700s, Spanish missionaries were quick to recognize the agricultural potential of Sylmar’s plains and foothills.

Van Nuys

A historic neighborhood in the heart of the San Fernando Valley, the first building and bank in the region, Valley General Store, still stands at Van Nuys Boulevard and Sylvan Street.

Burbank

From quiet neighborhood parks to a bustling downtown, Burbank has a place for every occasion.

Panorama City

Encompassing land that was once owned by the largest dairy and sheep ranches in Southern California, Panorama City was developed in the late 1940s as a post-WWII planned community.