Helen MacLeod Thomson is a former member of the

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Board of Supervisors and a former Democratic assemblywoman from California's 8th Assembly district. Thomson was first elected to the assembly in 1996 and served three two-year terms. She was the first of what have become three consecutive women from

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to be elected to this seat, followed by

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and

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Political career

Helen Thomson was elected in 1974 to the Davis Joint Unified School District Board of Education. She was elected to the Yolo County Board of Supervisors in 1986 and re-elected in 1990 and 1994. She won the seat in the California State Assembly in 1996, and served three terms. In 2002, when her assembly term ended, Thomson again won a seat on the Yolo County Board of Supervisors, and was re-elected without opposition in June 2006. Thomson retired from the Board of Supervisors in 2010, and was succeeded by Don Saylor.

Personal

Helen Thomson is a

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, the mother of three and a grandmother of four. She lives in Davis with her husband, Captane P. Thomson,

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, a practicing

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, and former head of th
California Psychiatric Association

References

External links

;Helen Thomson - Yolo County Board of Supervisors Website * https://web.archive.org/web/20100613045308/http://yolocounty.org/Index.aspx?page=325 {{DEFAULTSORT:Thomson, Helen American nurses American women nurses People from Davis, California Women state legislators in California Living people County supervisors in California School board members in California Democratic Party members of the California State Assembly 21st-century American politicians 21st-century American women politicians 1940 births 20th-century American politicians 20th-century American women politicians