---
type: Person
title: "Steve Padilla"
description: "CA Senate District 18 — CA State Senate District 18"
role: "CA Senate District 18"
party: "D"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "CA"
district: "CA State Senate District 18"
represents: "us/states/ca/districts/senate/18"
tenure:
  start: "2022-12-05"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "68d17b3f-785c-48e0-9dde-b380a25758ae"
  office: "dcd192ea-1eab-4483-8d6d-8e63335525d3"
  tenure: "31f0177b-5682-4a8f-a285-36092aeec79b"
  jurisdiction: "b9406d5e-5865-42d6-a7a4-3ada0a5a1325"
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"
---

# Steve Padilla

Current CA Senate District 18 (CA State Senate District 18).

Represents [CA State Senate District 18](/us/states/ca/districts/senate/18.md).

## Sources

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

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