Capitol Weekly’s Top 100: Jodi Hicks

11. Jodi Hicks

A list like this without Jodi Hicks is, in a word, inconceivable. As president and CEO of the Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California — Planned Parenthood’s largest state organization – she has become the face of the ongoing battle for reproductive rights, certainly here in California but increasingly beyond our borders as well. In the wake of the SCOTUS ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, Hicks and her organization went right to work on 2022’s Prop. 1, which enshrined abortion rights into the California constitution. With that victory in hand, Hicks has her sights on helping Democrats reclaim the U.S. House. And they are putting serious money into the game. But it isn’t just the money – Hicks is traveling far and wide to help boost candidates and get out the vote in what most observers expect to be a very close election. Previous to Planned Parenthood, Hicks was the legislative director for the National Organization for Women and a vice president of government relations at the California Medical Association. Full disclosure: She’s a board member of Open California, the publisher of Capitol Weekly.

Updated Aug. 7, 2024