Capitol Weekly’s Top 100: Janus Norman

35. Janus Norman

In 2024, broadband is an essential service, which makes the California Broadband and Video Association, aka CalBroadband, the representative of the state’s leading high-speed internet providers, a rising political power. Leading Calbroadband is President Janus Norman, a rising political power himself, who cut his teeth as the senior vice president for government relations and political operations for the California Medical Association and as a legislative advocate for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO. Norman holds a bachelor’s in communication studies from Sac State and an MBA from USC and is married to Nikki Johnson, chief of staff to Assemblywoman Blanca Pacheco, chairwoman of the Assembly Rules Committee.

Updated Aug. 7, 2024