---
type: Person
title: "Chris Ward"
description: "CA House District 78 — CA State House of Representatives District 78"
role: "CA House District 78"
party: "D"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "CA"
district: "CA State House of Representatives District 78"
represents: "us/states/ca/districts/house/78"
tenure:
  start: "2020-12-07"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "97072498-782b-4465-9468-96b4f995214a"
  office: "2f687f15-bae4-455c-91fc-40649ed657a2"
  tenure: "31abbac8-fc1b-439f-85b8-be7ad940d196"
  jurisdiction: "306d57f3-6983-4f9c-a32f-a24f58b5c69d"
sources:
  - field: tenure
    source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20"
  - field: jurisdiction
    source: "SLDL (Census 2025)"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, ca]
timestamp: "2026-07-04"
---

# Chris Ward

Current CA House District 78 (CA State House of Representatives District 78).

Represents [CA State House of Representatives District 78](/us/states/ca/districts/house/78.md).

## Sources

- tenure: OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20
- jurisdiction: SLDL (Census 2025)

Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).