Jasmeet Kaur Bains (born 1986) is an American physician and politician serving as a member of the

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for the

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district. She assumed office on December 5, 2022.

Early life and education

Bains was born in Delano, California to immigrants from India, where he father owned a car dealership and her mother was a bookkeeper. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 2006 and a Doctor of Medicine from the

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in 2013.

Career

From 2015 to 2018, Bains was a resident physician at Clinica Sierra Vista in

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. She worked as a family medicine physician at Omni Family Health from 2018 to 2020. In 2017, Bains was appointed to the California Healthcare Workforce Policy Commission by California Governor Jerry Brown. She also served as a member of the California Developmental Services Taskforce and as a volunteer physician for the

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. Bains was elected to the

in November 2022, defeating Kern County Supervisor Leticia Perez in an upset.

References

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