Sara Jacobs

Democrat · CA-51 · U.S. House

Bio

Sara Josephine Jacobs is an American politician who has been the U.S. representative for California's 51st congressional district since 2023, previously representing the 53rd congressional district from 2021 to 2023. Her district includes central and eastern portions of San Diego, as well as eastern suburbs such as El Cajon, La Mesa, Spring Valley, and Lemon Grove. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the youngest member of California's congressional delegation. She was the caucus leadership representative for the 118th Congress, making her the youngest member of the Democratic House leadership.

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Record of service

In office: 5.6 years
First took office: 2021 (3 terms)
Seniority: 246 of 437 by time served
Age: 37

District offices

San Diego, CA · 619-280-5353

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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

2021

$77.3M

2022

$61.5M

2023

$72.2M

2024

$83.9M

2025

$81.8M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $28.7M – $141.6M
Liabilities: $1.3M – $5.5M
Net worth: $23.2M – $140.4M
Since 2021: +$4.5M

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 37 assets reported

SJJ Charitable Remainder Unitrust$5.0M – $25.0M

Sara Jacobs Trust U/A DTD 09/01/2009 ⇒ Merrill Lynch - SJ QCOM ⇒ Beldore Capital Fund LLC$5.0M – $25.0M

Sara Jacobs Trust U/A DTD 09/01/2009 ⇒ Merrill Lynch - SJ QCOM ⇒ Belgard Capital Fund LLC $5.0M – $25.0M

Sara Jacobs Trust U/A DTD 09/01/2009 ⇒ Merrill Lynch - SJ QCOM ⇒ Clearfork Capital Fund LL$5.0M – $25.0M

Sara Jacobs Trust U/A DTD 09/01/2009 ⇒ Merrill Lynch - SJ QCOM ⇒ QUALCOMM Incorporated (QC$5.0M – $25.0M

Essjane, LLC ⇒ Investment Property$1.0M – $5.0M

Sara J Jacobs 1999 Trust ⇒ Merrill Lynch - SJ QCOM ⇒ QUALCOMM Incorporated (QCOM)$1.0M – $5.0M

Sara Jacobs Trust U/A DTD 09/01/2009 ⇒ Investment Property$1.0M – $5.0M

The SJJ Irrevocable Trust Dated 12/10/01 ⇒ Northwestern Mutual Survivorship Universal Life$500k – $1.0M

Trust #1 ⇒ Bank of America - Checking Account$100k – $250k

Sara Jacobs Trust U/A DTD 09/01/2009 ⇒ Merrill Lynch - SJ QCOM ⇒ Bank of America, N.A.$50k – $100k

Sara J Jacobs 1999 Trust ⇒ Merrill Lynch - SJ BP ⇒ Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI)$15k – $50k

Merrill Lynch - IRA ⇒ iShares MSCI Global Sustainable Development Goals ETF (SDG)$1k – $15k

Sara J Jacobs 1999 Trust ⇒ Merrill Lynch - SJ BP ⇒ iShares Core MSCI Total International S$5k – $15k

Sara J Jacobs 1999 Trust ⇒ Merrill Lynch - SJ BP ⇒ WisdomTree U.S. Quality Dividend Growth$5k – $15k

Sara J Jacobs 1999 Trust ⇒ Merrill Lynch - SJ QCOM ⇒ Bank of America, N.A.$1k – $15k

Trust #1 ⇒ BlackRock Liquidity Funds Treasury Trust - Institutional (TTTXX)$1k – $15k

Sara J Jacobs 1999 Trust ⇒ Merrill Lynch - SJ BP ⇒ Hotchkis & Wiley Value Opportunities Fu$3k – $5k

Sara J Jacobs 1999 Trust ⇒ Merrill Lynch - SJ BP ⇒ iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF (DGRO)$3k – $5k

Sara J Jacobs 1999 Trust ⇒ Merrill Lynch - SJ BP ⇒ Vanguard Div Appreciation ETF (VIG)$3k – $5k

Sara J Jacobs 1999 Trust ⇒ Merrill Lynch - SJ BP ⇒ AMCAP Fund, Class F-2 Shares (AMCFX)$1k – $3k

Sara J Jacobs 1999 Trust ⇒ Merrill Lynch - SJ BP ⇒ Capital Group Growth ETF Capital Group $1k – $3k

Sara J Jacobs 1999 Trust ⇒ Merrill Lynch - SJ BP ⇒ DWS RREEF Real Assets Fund - Class Inst$1k – $3k

Sara J Jacobs 1999 Trust ⇒ Merrill Lynch - SJ BP ⇒ Eaton Vance Richard Bernstein Equity St$1k – $3k

Sara J Jacobs 1999 Trust ⇒ Merrill Lynch - SJ BP ⇒ FullerThaler Behavioral Small-Cap Equit$1k – $3k

Sara J Jacobs 1999 Trust ⇒ Merrill Lynch - SJ BP ⇒ Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-$1k – $3k

Sara J Jacobs 1999 Trust ⇒ Merrill Lynch - SJ BP ⇒ Vanguard International Dividend Appreci$1k – $3k

Sara J Jacobs 1999 Trust ⇒ Merrill Lynch - SJ BP ⇒ Washington Mutual Investors Fund Cl F-2$1k – $3k

Merrill Lynch - IRA ⇒ Bank of America, NA$1 – $1k

Sara J Jacobs 1999 Trust ⇒ Merrill Lynch - SJ BP ⇒ ALPS/Smith Total Return Bond Fund Class$201 – $1k

Sara J Jacobs 1999 Trust ⇒ Merrill Lynch - SJ BP ⇒ Artisan High Income Fund Advisor Shares$201 – $1k

Sara J Jacobs 1999 Trust ⇒ Merrill Lynch - SJ BP ⇒ Baron Real Estate Fd Insti Shs (BREIX)$201 – $1k

Sara J Jacobs 1999 Trust ⇒ Merrill Lynch - SJ BP ⇒ EuroPacific Growth Fund, Class F-2 Shs $201 – $1k

Sara J Jacobs 1999 Trust ⇒ Merrill Lynch - SJ BP ⇒ Invesco Core Plus Bond Fund Class Y (CP$201 – $1k

Sara J Jacobs 1999 Trust ⇒ Merrill Lynch - SJ BP ⇒ Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF $201 – $1k

Sara J Jacobs 1999 Trust ⇒ Merrill Lynch - SJ BP ⇒ JPMorgan Core Plus Bond Fund I Class (H$201 – $1k

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+0.47

Healthcare

D+0.90

Immigration & Border

D+0.89

Guns

D+0.85

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+1.00

Environment & Energy

D+0.87

Crime & Policing

D+0.61

Defense & Veterans

D+0.36

Economy & Labor

D+0.58

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.19

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.94

Education

D+0.90

Government & Democracy

D+0.85

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

Sara Jacobs'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

90%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

88%

Communist Party USA

87%

Libertarian Party

52%

Republican Party

29%

On the political map

Sara Jacobs (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 Jacobssits 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

Congressional Progressive Caucusstrongly left · 93 members
New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members

Committees

House Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 57 members
Military Personnel Intelligence and Special Operations
House Committee on Foreign Affairscenter · 50 members
Africa (Ranking Member)Western Hemisphere

Most and least aligned members

Treating Jacobs'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.