---
type: Person
title: "John Laird"
description: "CA Senate District 17 — CA State Senate District 17"
role: "CA Senate District 17"
party: "D"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "CA"
district: "CA State Senate District 17"
represents: "us/states/ca/districts/senate/17"
tenure:
  start: "2020-12-07"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "eb3a91dd-3422-423f-888b-810cc9c97b58"
  office: "2da02940-11bc-40b3-92a1-f715cb9fb663"
  tenure: "eb42b9dd-3c18-41e8-92a2-ca0c3064f31f"
  jurisdiction: "15d6e404-ffa6-4bae-89c4-a21c52c4fd35"
sources:
  - field: tenure
    source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20"
  - field: jurisdiction
    source: "SLDU (Census 2025)"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, ca]
timestamp: "2026-07-04"
---

# John Laird

Current CA Senate District 17 (CA State Senate District 17).

Represents [CA State Senate District 17](/us/states/ca/districts/senate/17.md).

## Sources

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

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