"As a lifelong conservative our party MUST win again. Conservative fiscal values and principles of individual liberty and responsibility will only return to California through the Republican party. As a small business owner, I want to see California’s economic freedoms restored and taxpayers protected." |
Harmeet Dhillon was born in Chandigarh, India in the home of a physician. She moved to America at the age of two, living throughout the United States and making her proud to become an American citizen. As a first generation immigrant who has lived in the Bronx, rural North Carolina, Washington DC and now California, she has gathered a special collection of life experiences that shaped her character, conservative beliefs and American patriotism.
Dhillon grew up in the home of two very conservative parents learning the importance of self-defense. They instilled in her the deep importance of embracing and protecting the tenets of our Constitution such as freedom of speech, religion, the right to bear arms, the right to vote, and protecting life, our most valued treasure. At naturalization, her family registered Republican and immediately engaged in the political process to promote freedom. Dhillon’s mother was a volunteer Republican election judge in Johnston County. She would intervene when white Democrat landowners would try to go into the voting booths to “help” their black housekeepers. The Dhillon family was most proud of their extensive efforts to support conservative stalwart Senator Jesse Helms by hosting fundraisers at their home and organizing volunteer efforts for his successful elections. |
At the age of 16, Dhillon went off to Dartmouth College. After graduation, she began work at the internationally renowned Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., where she was the Assistant Editor of Policy Review magazine. During this year she was published twice on the pages of the Wall Street Journal’s op/ed pages. Later, Dhillon was accepted into the University of Virginia Law School where she began the start of her legal career.
Dhillon’s longtime friend and colleague from Dartmouth, conservative leader Dinesh D’Souza recruited her for a position at the conservative public interest law firm The Center for Individual Rights and was a contributor for the prestigious Law Review.
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In 2005, Dhillon was elected to the San Francisco County Republican Central Committee. In 2008, she enthusiastically ran for State Assembly in the eastern half of San Francisco making history as the first Indian American major party nominee for state office in California history. She ran an aggressive campaign, receiving nearly double the vote of GOP registration in one of the most liberal districts in California. During her campaign, Dhillon met her husband Sarvjit, a retired nuclear engineer who worked for the Public Utilities Commission after starting nuclear power plants around the country.
In 2011, after Dhillon was elected Chair of the San Francisco Republican Party, Dhillon and her husband sailed to their own wedding on Angel Island, and were married by a Republican judge. In 2012, she started her own small business, manufacturing and selling California made yarn, inspired by her husband who wanted to purchase products made in California. Through her small business and her law firm she has created economic opportunity for Californians and knows the challenges job creators face every day from oppressive regulation and taxation.
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