Cecilia Aguiar-Curry

Cecilia Aguiar-Curry is a Democratic member of the California State Assembly serving as Majority Leader and representing the 4th District, which encompasses all of Yolo, Napa, Lake, and Colusa counties along with portions of Sonoma County. ^[1,2,3] Born in San Luis Obispo and raised in western Yolo County, she is a small businesswoman, family walnut farmer, and the first woman and first Latina to serve as mayor of Winters. ^[1,2,4] First elected to the Assembly in 2016, Aguiar-Curry has built a legislative record focused on rural broadband expansion, agricultural policy, wildfire recovery, and community health — priorities that largely diverge from the California Family Council's emphasis on parental rights, religious liberty, and limited government, though her deep roots in rural California and dedication to agricultural communities reflect a practical, community-centered approach to public service. With a 15% CFC Biblical Values Scorecard rating, her voting record has placed her at considerable distance from the California Family Council's worldview framework on the sanctity of life (Chapter 6), parental rights in education (Chapter 8), and religious liberty (Chapter 9).

Aguiar-Curry was born on September 25, 1954, in San Luis Obispo, California, and grew up in the small city of Winters in western Yolo County. ^[1,2] Her father was a high school agriculture teacher and her mother volunteered in the community, instilling in her a lifelong connection to farming and civic life. ^[1,4] As a youth, she cut apricots in the packing shed and helped her father in the family walnut orchards. ^[4,5] She earned a degree in business administration from San Jose State University while supporting herself as a single mother of two daughters. ^[1,2,4] She and her brothers still co-own an 80-acre walnut farm in Yolo County. ^[4,5]

After working in the Bay Area for several years, Aguiar-Curry returned to Winters, where she founded Community Mitigation and Consulting, a firm specializing in public outreach with government agencies through collaboration with communities, elected officials, and environmental groups. ^[4,6] She also worked as a water and land use consultant. ^[1,2] Her civic involvement expanded rapidly: she served as chair of the Yolo Housing Commission, vice-chair of the Yolo County Water Association, and on the Board of Directors of the Sacramento Area Council of Governments, where she championed hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding for rural communities. ^[2,4]

Her 11.1% Biblical Values Scorecard rating across 104 scored floor votes reflects consistent divergence from CFC's worldview framework. Her voting record has supported abortion access expansion over the sanctity of human life, government-directed education over parental authority and school choice, and progressive social mandates over religious liberty protections.

Aguiar-Curry's legislative record aligns with a progressive Democratic orientation on environmental regulation, abortion access, labor, and public health — positions that place her at odds with CFC's priorities of limited government, parental rights, and religious liberty. Her strong support for expanded regulatory authority and abortion access legislation differs from CFC's policy framework, though her deep commitment to rural communities, family farming, and small-town governance demonstrates a practical, constituent-centered approach to representation.