Ricky Gill

Ricky Gill is a Republican candidate for Congress in California's new 9th Congressional District, comprising parts of San Joaquin County, East Contra Costa County, and southern Sacramento County.
Background
Gill is a native of San Joaquin County, born and raised in Lodi, California. He graduated from Tokay High School. Gill is the son of immigrant parents, who are both physicians and farmers. While growing up in Lodi, he helped manage his family's vineyard operation and served as chair of the Greater Lodi Area Youth Commission. In 2004, he was appointed by the Governor to the California State Board of Education, where he represented more than six million public school students. He subsequently served as an advisor to the California Secretary of Education, and he spent the summer of 2006 working for former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University, he currently is earning his Juris Doctor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Congressional Campaign
Gill established an exploratory committee on March 1, 2011, to assess a possible run for Congress. Gill announced his candidacy on May 17, 2011, to a crowd of about 200 people outside of Lodi Memorial Hospital.
Gill had raised more than $420,000 in individual donations by June 30, 2011, in his first fundraising period,, the third-highest total among Republican challengers nationwide.
The National Republican Congressional Committee in August 2011 named Gill an "On the Radar" candidate as part of its "Young Guns" program, making him one of only 22 candidates nationwide to have received that designation for the 2012 cycle. On August 21, 2011, Gill was featured on the front page of the Sunday edition of the Times of India, the world's largest-circulation English-language newspaper.

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