Elected to represent the 29th Senate District in 2008, a region that includes portions of Los Angeles, Orange and San Bernardino Counties. Prior to serving in the Senate, Bob Huff served the 60 th Assembly district from 2004-2008.

In the Assembly, Huff held leadership positions of Whip and Republican Caucus Chairman and Vice Chair of the San Gabriel Valley Legislative Caucus. He currently serves as Senate Republican Caucus Chairman, Vice Chair of the San Gabriel Valley Legislative Caucus and serves on the following committees: Vice Chair of the Education and Transportation and Housing Committees and a member of the Budget, Public Safety and Natural Resources and Water Committees.

As a proponent of reform within California’s school system, Senator Huff has had legislation signed into law guaranteeing more funding for public charter schools. He has lead efforts to continue the Standard Testing and Reporting (STAR) program for second graders and fought for parents’ right to choose the best school for their children.

He has received first-rate legislative vote rankings from the California Taxpayers Association, California Chamber of Commerce, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, California Farm Bureau Federation, and the California Manufacturers and Technology Association. He was awarded the 2005 Local Distinguished Service Award in Transportation from the American Public Transit Association and the Outstanding Community Leader of 2005 by the Boy Scouts of America Old Baldy Council.

A resident of Diamond Bar, he served on the City Council from 1995-2004, and served as Mayor in 1997 and 2001. With a focus on transportation issues, Huff was Diamond Bar’s delegate to the Four Corners Transportation Policy Group and was Vice President of the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments. He was President of the Foothill Transit Executive Board, and founding Chairman and Executive Board Member of the Alameda Corridor East Construction Authority.

Born in Calexico, California, Bob Huff grew up on his family’s farm in the Imperial Valley. Mr. Huff attended Westmont College in Santa Barbara, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology, graduating with honors.

Most of Senator Huff’s professional and business experience has been in the agricultural industry. Working through the ranks to become the youngest vice president in a grain handling corporation, he became manager-owner of the Ray S. French Company, an independent commodity wholesaler, shortly after he moved his family to Diamond Bar in 1983. Senator Huff and his wife, Mei Mei, have three sons, a daughter and three granddaughters.