Sen. Christopher Cabaldon (D-West Sacramento) has been appointed to the Little Hoover Commission by the Senate Rules Committee, chaired by Senate President pro Tempore Mike McGuire (D-Healdsburg).

Sen. Cabaldon replaces Sen. Dave Min (D-Irvine), who served on the Commission from 2021 until his election to Congress in 2024. Senator Min automatically left the Commission when his legislative service ended.

Cabaldon has been Senator for California's Third Senate District, representing Wine Country, the Delta, the North Bay, and the Sacramento Valley, since 2024.

He served two decades as mayor of West Sacramento, where he implemented pioneering initiatives, including universal preschool, college savings accounts for kindergarteners and free community college for local graduating seniors.

Cabaldon represented California on the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education prior to his election to the Senate. He served previously as vice chancellor of the California Community Colleges and Director of the Higher Education Committee for the California State Assembly.

Cabaldon served as president of the Linked Learning Alliance and as national president for Asian and Pacific Americans in Higher Education. He was appointed by President Obama to the national board advancing America's College Promise initiative. He served as chair of the Jobs, Education & the Workforce Committee for America’s mayors, and represented the U.S. in the Global Parliament of Mayors.

He was also the inaugural chair of the national LGBTQ Mayors Alliance, and former chair of both the Asian/Pacific and LGBT caucuses of the League of California Cities.

Cabaldon was chair of the Sacramento Area Council of Governments, and a member of the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board and the Delta Protection Commission.

Senator Cabaldon earned a Master of Public Policy and Administration from California State University, Sacramento and a Bachelor of Science in environmental economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

The Little Hoover Commission is America’s only permanent, independent citizens commission working to improve state government. A nonpartisan oversight agency created in 1962, the Commission includes 13 Commissioners appointed by the Governor and legislative leaders. The commission’s mission is to investigate state operations and promote efficiency, economy, and improved service.