Capitol Weekly’s Top 100: Dustin Corcoran

22. Dustin Corcoran

A perennial figure on the Top 100, Dustin Corcoran is the CEO of the California Medical Association, one of the Capitol’s most powerful interests, representing 50,000 doctors. The CMA always has a seat at the table whenever medical issues are debated in Sacramento. This year, the focus has largely been in Medi-Cal spending and – no surprise – Corcoran has been in the middle of the action from the get-go. CMA is one of a legion of health care entities backing Prop. 35, the ballot measure to extend an existing tax on health insurers and, among several things, use the funds to bolster payments to health practitioners that treat Medi-Cal patients. Corcoran is serving as a spokesperson for the initiative. His wife, Glenda Corcoran, is the district director for Congresswoman Doris Matsui, the U.S. Representative whose district includes the State Capitol itself. She and Dustin are an inseparable, 
and influential, pair in the Capitol community.

Updated August 7, 2024