Sessions
Banquet Luncheon
12:10 PM - 1:20 PM Thu
Senator Bill Dodd was elected in 2016 to represent California’s 3rd Senate District. The district includes all of Napa and Solano counties and portions of Contra Costa, Sacramento, Sonoma, and Yolo counties. Sen. Dodd serves as the chair of the Governmental Organization Committee and is a member of the Senate Transportation Committee, the Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee, and the Insurance Committee. He is co-chair of the Senate Select Committee on California’s Wine Industry and the Legislative Delta Caucus. As a senator representing wildfire-torn Napa and Sonoma counties, he co-chaired the 2018 conference committee on wildfire safety and prevention and authored numerous bills that were signed into law to protect Californians from future infernos and accompanying utility rate hikes.
Before his time in elected office, Sen. Dodd was a successful small business owner. He owned and operated one of the largest full-service Culligan Water operations in California, and served as president of the water quality industry’s state and national trade associations. Sen. Dodd is a graduate of California State University, Chico.