California U.S. Representative Kevin Kiley leaves the Republican Party
Kiley is the Chairman of the House Education Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
Kevin Kiley is currently a member of the United States House of Representatives from the Sacramento-area 3rd District of California. This year, Kiley is running for another term in Congress, but he is doing so in California’s 6th District following a re-drawing of the boundary lines. And he is also doing so now without a political party.
Kiley has announced that he is running as an Independent candidate, citing hyper-partisanship and gerrymandering as playing key factors in his decision. “I answer to you, not party leaders,” Kiley also stated in a video announcement to his constituents.
In 2016, Kiley won the first of three campaigns for the California State Assembly. Additionally, he was a candidate for the California State Senate from the 1st District in 2019, coming up short to ex-State Assembly Minority Leader Brian Dahle, and for Governor in 2021, finishing well behind the front-runners in seventh place.
Kiley won his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2022. He was re-elected in 2024.
A native of Rocklin, California, Kevin Kiley graduated from high school in nearby Granite Bay before attending Harvard University, Yale Law School and Loyola Marymount University. Prior to standing for elected office, he clerked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, was a practicing attorney with the law firm Irell & Manella and taught at Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles, California and the University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law. Since late 2023, Kiley has been married to Chelsee Gardner.