Ken Maddy

CA Blue Book

Date	Party	Office	Votes	Result
11-03-1970	Republican	AD-32	40446	Win
11-07-1972	Republican	AD-32	46532	Win
11-05-1974	Republican	AD-30	30694	Win
11-02-1976	Republican	AD-30	39410	Win
06-19-1979	Republican	SD-14	39917	Win
11-02-1982	Republican	SD-14	127980	Win
11-04-1986	Republican	SD-14	112270	Win
11-06-1990	Republican	SD-14	135369	Win
11-08-1994	Republican	SD-14	168017	Win

Candidate Biography:

Kenneth Leon Maddy
Born: May 22, 1934 in Santa Monica, CA
Married: Beverly Chinello, Norma Foster, [engaged to Marie Moretti (sister of Bob Moretti)
Children: Deanna Hose, Donald Paul Maddy, and Marilyn Geis
Military Service: USAF
Died: February 19, 2000 in Sacramento, CA

1978: Primary Candidate for Governor (Lost)
1979-1983: Minority Caucus Chair, California State Senate
1987-1995: Minority Leader, California State Senate
1999: Governor Gray Davis declared December 2nd as "Ken Maddy Day" [Honorary Day]

• LEGISLATION: Author of the Dixon-Zenovich-Maddy California Arts Act of 1975, which established the California Arts Council.
• LEGISLATION: Author (with Roberti, Doolittle and Keene) of SB 1738 (Chapt. 84, Statutes of 1990) which established what is today known as the “Milton Marks Postgovernment Employment Restrictions Act of 1990” which prohibits former legislators from being "paid to communicate with their former colleagues in the Legislature in an attempt to influence certain actions or proceedings."
• PLACENAME: The portion of Route 99 constructed to freeway standards near the City of Livingston is officially named the "Kenneth L. Maddy" Freeway.
• PLACENAME: The Kenneth L. Maddy Institute is located at CSU Fresno
• PLACENAME: The Kenneth L. Maddy Equine Analytical Chemistry Laboratory is located at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine
• In 2015, the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association (CTBA) established the Kenneth L. Maddy Award to recognize a member of the California Legislature who has shown extraordinary dedication to California's Thoroughbred industry.
• The coup to remove Maddy as Senate Minority Leader, which took place on August 24, 1995, has been cited by several longtime staffers as a major turning point in the increasingly partisan legislature of the 1990s-2000s.

Source: California Blue Book (1971), (1975)