Julia Brownley

Democrat · CA-26 · U.S. House

Bio

Julia Andrews Brownley is an American businesswoman and politician who has been the United States representative for California's 26th congressional district since 2013. A Democrat, she served in the California State Assembly from 2006 to 2012. Before her political career, she worked in marketing and sales.

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Record of service

In office: 13.6 years
First took office: 2013 (7 terms)
Seniority: 101 of 437 by time served
Age: 73

District offices

Oxnard, CA · 805-379-1779
Thousand Oaks, CA · 805-379-1779

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2019

$2.1M

2020

$1.7M

2021

$1.1M

2022

$1.4M

2023

$1.4M

2024

$2.1M

2025

$4.8M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $2.5M – $8.8M
Liabilities: $550k – $1.1M
Net worth: $1.4M – $8.2M
Since 2019: +$2.7M

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 41 assets reported

Real Estate ⇒ Rental Property$1.0M – $5.0M

Merrill Lynch ⇒ Causeway International Value Fund - Institutional Class (CIVIX)$100k – $250k

Merrill Lynch ⇒ MFS Total Return Bond Fund Class I (MRBIX)$100k – $250k

Merrill Lynch ⇒ MFS Value Fund - Class I (MEIIX)$100k – $250k

Merrill Lynch ⇒ ML BANK DEPOSIT PROGRAM$100k – $250k

Merrill Lynch ⇒ The Bond Fd of America, Class F-2 Shares (ABNFX)$100k – $250k

Merrill Lynch ⇒ The Growth Fund of America Class F-2 Shares (GFFFX)$100k – $250k

Merrill Lynch ⇒ The Hartford Growth Opportunities Fund Class I (HGOIX)$100k – $250k

Merrill Lynch ⇒ Washington Mutual Investors Fund Cl F-2 Shs (WMFFX)$100k – $250k

IRA ⇒ MFS Value Fund - Class I (MEIIX)$50k – $100k

IRA ⇒ The Bond Fd of America, Class F-2 Shares (ABNFX)$50k – $100k

Merrill Lynch ⇒ Eaton Vance Floating Rate Fund Insti Share (EIBLX)$50k – $100k

Merrill Lynch ⇒ iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (IEMG)$50k – $100k

Merrill Lynch ⇒ Lord Abbett Inv Tr. Short Duration Income Fd Cl I (LLDYX)$50k – $100k

Merrill Lynch ⇒ MFS International Growth Fund - Class I (MQGIX)$50k – $100k

Merrill Lynch ⇒ Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO)$50k – $100k

IRA ⇒ BlackRock Emerging Markets Fund Class I (MADCX)$15k – $50k

IRA ⇒ BlackRock Inflation Protected Bond Portfolio - Institutional (BPRIX)$15k – $50k

IRA ⇒ Causeway International Value Fund - Institutional Class (CIVIX)$15k – $50k

IRA ⇒ Eaton Vance Floating Rate Fund Insti Share (EIBLX)$15k – $50k

IRA ⇒ Glenmede Small Capitalization Equity Portfolio Institutional Shares (GTSCX)$15k – $50k

IRA ⇒ Invesco Discovery Fund Class Y (ODIYX)$15k – $50k

IRA ⇒ Lord Abbett Inv Tr. Short Duration Income Fd Cl I (LLDYX)$15k – $50k

IRA ⇒ MFS International Growth Fund - Class I (MQGIX)$15k – $50k

IRA ⇒ MFS Total Return Bond Fund Class I (MRBIX)$15k – $50k

IRA ⇒ State Street SPDR Portfolio Aggregate Bond ETF (SPAB)$15k – $50k

IRA ⇒ The Hartford Growth Opportunities Fund Class I (HGOIX)$15k – $50k

IRA ⇒ Vanguard Growth ETF (VUG)$15k – $50k

IRA ⇒ Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO)$15k – $50k

IRA ⇒ Washington Mutual Investors Fund Cl F-2 Shs (WMFFX)$15k – $50k

Merrill Lynch ⇒ BlackRock Emerging Markets Fund Class I (MADCX)$15k – $50k

Merrill Lynch ⇒ Glenmede Small Capitalization Equity Portfolio Institutional Shares (GTSCX$15k – $50k

Merrill Lynch ⇒ Invesco Discovery Fund Class Y (ODIYX)$15k – $50k

Merrill Lynch ⇒ Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets ETF (VEA)$15k – $50k

Merrill Lynch ⇒ Vanguard Value ETF (VTV)$15k – $50k

Other Securities ⇒ AIG Annuity - Fixed ⇒ American General Life Insurance$15k – $50k

IRA ⇒ ML BANK DEPOSIT PROGRAM$1k – $15k

IRA ⇒ NYLI MacKay High Yield Corporate Bond Fund Class I (MHYIX)$1k – $15k

IRA ⇒ Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets ETF (VEA)$1k – $15k

Merrill Lynch ⇒ Comcast Corporation - Class A Common Stock (CMCSA)$1k – $15k

Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.42

Healthcare

D+0.66

Immigration & Border

D+0.81

Guns

D+0.94

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+0.99

Environment & Energy

D+0.88

Crime & Policing

D+0.43

Defense & Veterans

R+0.01

Economy & Labor

D+0.48

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.08

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.87

Education

D+0.77

Government & Democracy

D+0.79

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+1.00

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Julia Brownley's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Democratic Party

92%Closest

Green Party

86%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

83%

Communist Party USA

82%

Libertarian Party

53%

Republican Party

34%

On the political map

Julia Brownley (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Brownleysits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Caucuses

New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members

Committees

House Committee on Natural Resourcescenter · 45 members
Water, Wildlife and Fisheries
House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructurecenter · 66 members
Aviation Highways and Transit Water Resources and Environment
House Committee on Veterans' Affairscenter · 24 members
Health (Ranking Member)

Most and least aligned members

Treating Brownley's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.