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Maggy Rose Krell
Member of the California State Assembly
from the 6th district
Incumbent
Assumed office
December 2, 2024
Preceded byKevin McCarty
Personal details
Born1978 (age 46–47)
Political partyDemocratic
Children2
EducationUC Davis School of Law (J.D.), University of California, San Diego
OccupationPolitician, Attorney, Author

Maggy Krell is an American lawyer, author and politician currently serving in the California State Assembly. She is a Democrat representing the 6th district, encompassing the majority of the city of Sacramento and surrounding unincorporated communities. Before successfully running for the Assembly, Krell served as a Deputy Attorney General and Special Assistant United States Attorney prosecuting high profile cases throughout California.[1] She also served as Chief Legal Counsel for Planned Parenthood California where she led the organization’s national litigation efforts.[2]

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Krell received her J.D. from University of California, Davis King School of Law in 2003, and started her career as a deputy district attorney for San Joaquin County in Stockton, California. She subsequently moved to the California Department of Justice where she prosecuted a wide variety of cases including cold case murders, white collar offenses and multi-jurisdictional cases. She was promoted to Supervising Deputy Attorney General and led California’s Special Prosecution Unit.[3]

In that role, Krell distinguished herself as a prosecutor of human traffickers and advocate for survivors. She led a successful prosecution of executives of Backpage.com, then the largest online human trafficking platform in the world,[4] that resulted in the site being shut down in 2018.[5] Krell described her work against the site in her 2022 book Taking Down Backpage: Fighting the World’s Largest Sex Trafficker: A Prosecutor’s Story.[6] The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children honored Krell with a career achievement award for her work on the Backpage case.[7] As an advocate for survivors, Krell helped secure the early release of a sex-trafficking survivor who had been imprisoned as a teenager for crimes stemming from her victimization.[8] Krell has been outspoken about the need for better treatment of victims by the criminal justice system.[9]

In 2018, Krell joined Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California as their Chief Legal Counsel, seeking to help combat efforts by the Trump Administration to cut funding and curtail access to low-cost reproductive healthcare. In that role, she filed an amicus brief defending a California law that sought to reduce targeted dissemination of misinformation about reproductive healthcare from a suit that was being heard by the Supreme Court.[2] She also defended access to federal family planning funds by seeking an injunction to the federal government’s Title X Rule.[10]

After the Trump Administration began a policy of separating families arrested for crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, Krell served as a volunteer lawyer, helping to reunite separated parents and children, and worked to challenge the federal government’s policy through legal action.[11]

Political career

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Krell won election to the California State Assembly in 2024 on a platform promising to prioritize public safety, protect access to reproductive healthcare, address high prices and homelessness, and improve programs benefiting vulnerable youth.[12][13] She had previously run for Sacramento County District Attorney in 2014 and lost to Anne Marie Schubert.[14] In 2024, Krell won her primary by a more than 10-point margin in a large field that included six other Democrats.[15] She focused her general election campaign on a ballot measure in Nevada to enshrine access to abortion as a right in the state constitution, bussing dozens of volunteers from Sacramento to Reno to campaign.[16] [17] Krell secured 66% of the vote[18] and Nevada’s constitutional initiative also passed.[19] Upon taking office, Krell introduced legislation to protect Californians' access to medication abortion.[20]

Electoral history

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Electoral history of Nick Schultz
Year Office Party Primary General Result Swing Ref.
Total % P. Total % P.
2014 Sacramento County District Attorney Nonpartisan 59,231 28.99% 2nd Runoff cancelled Lost N/A [21]
2024 California State Assembly Democratic 25,875 25.04% 1st 133,581 66.9% 1st Won Hold [22]

References

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  1. ^ "Maggy Krell". Digital Democracy. Retrieved 2025-01-07.
  2. ^ a b Maganini, Steve (March 9, 2018). "Planned Parenthood California brings on a 'tenacious fighter' to take on Trump". Sacramento BEe.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ "Column: For this lawyer and Assembly candidate, 'save the children' isn't a hashtag". Los Angeles Times. 2024-02-16. Retrieved 2025-01-07.
  4. ^ Portman, Rob; McCaskill, Claire; Callanan, Brian; Owen, Matt; Angehr, Mark (January 6, 2025). "BACKPAGE.COM'S KNOWING FACILITATION OF ONLINE SEX TRAFFICKING" (PDF). Courthouse News. Retrieved January 6, 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ Padilla, Mariel (2022-01-11). "A former prosecutor talks about modern-day human trafficking". The 19th. Retrieved 2025-01-07.
  6. ^ "Taking Down Backpage". NYU Press. Retrieved 2025-01-07.
  7. ^ "NCMEC Celebrates "Hope" and People Behind It". National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Archived from the original on 2024-06-15. Retrieved 2025-01-07.
  8. ^ Chabria, Anita (November 6, 2020). "Sex trafficked and imprisoned, California woman wins freedom after long fight". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2025-01-06.
  9. ^ Padilla, Mariel (2022-01-11). "A former prosecutor talks about modern-day human trafficking". The 19th. Retrieved 2025-01-07.
  10. ^ "California Attorney General Xavier Becerra files action over women's reproductive healthcare". ABC7 Los Angeles. Retrieved 2025-01-07.
  11. ^ "'Uphill climb' in court". enewspaper.latimes.com. Retrieved 2025-01-07.
  12. ^ "Issues". Maggy Krell for Assembly 2024. Retrieved 2025-01-07.
  13. ^ The Sacramento Bee Editorial Board (October 10, 2024). "The Bee Editorial Board endorses a veteran prosecutor for the California Assembly | Opinion". The Sacramento Bee. Retrieved January 6, 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  14. ^ Furillo, Andy (May 12, 2014). "Election 2014: Maggy Krell looks to shake up Sacramento County DA's Office". The Sacramento Bee. Retrieved January 6, 2024.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  15. ^ "California State Assembly District 6". Ballotpedia. Retrieved 2025-01-07.
  16. ^ Wohl, Patrick (2024-01-09). Down Ballot. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-04547-9.
  17. ^ X (2024-11-26). "She won a seat in the California Legislature — by campaigning for abortion rights in Nevada". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2025-01-07.
  18. ^ "Sacramento County - Election Night Results". results.saccounty.gov. Retrieved 2025-01-07.
  19. ^ "Nevada Question 6, Right to Abortion Initiative (2024)". Ballotpedia. Retrieved 2025-01-07.
  20. ^ "AB 54- INTRODUCED". leginfo.legislature.ca.gov. Retrieved 2025-01-07.
  21. ^ "Official 2014 Primary Election". Sacramento County. June 3, 2014.
  22. ^ "Tuesday March 5, 2024 - California Presidential Primary Election - Unofficial Election Results".
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