Candidate for
United States Representative; District 40

BIOGRAPHY

Florice Hoffman is the Democratic candidate for U.S. Congress in the 40th Congressional District of California. She was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania during the 1958 International Ladies Garment Workers Union's ("ILGWU") national strike in which her father, Sol Hoffman was very involved. Sol and Marianne Hoffman had met at the ILGWU institute in 1954. Marianne was working with German Textile Union and was attending the institute on a scholarship from the Marshall Plan.

Sol Hoffman served in every position during his 45-year career as a union activist for the ILGWU (UNITE/HERE) and was elected vice president in 1974. Marianne Hoffman was a political and community activist in her own right and she worked for the United States Commission on Economic Opportunity in the 1960's and successfully fought against discrimination by the Middletown Area School District in the hiring of African American teachers' aids. She also protested the building of Three Mile Island nuclear power plant long before the disaster. In short, Florice was raised to fight for working families.

Florice's own labor background includes:

• Shop steward for HERE in Stroudsberg, PA.
• Organizer for the ILGWU now UNITE-HERE in Arizona.
• Intern for the Coalition of Labor Union Women ("CLUW") at the national headquarters in New York City under the direction of President Emeritus, Joyce Miller.
• Staff representative for District 65, UAW in Woodbridge, New Jersey.

Florice began her legal career with the public sector union side law firm of Seligcoff & Cohn in Cherry Hill, New Jersey; U.S. Department of Justice, United States Trustees Office in Newark, New Jersey; and for the law firm of Lewis Greenwald & Kennedy in New York City.

In 1984 she moved to California and was admitted to practice law in California the same year. Prior to opening her own law firm in Orange County in 1999, she was a partner in the law firm of Wohlner Kaplon Phillips Young & Barsh.

Florice currently has her own practice and specializes in employment law, labor law and in the representation of Taft Hartley benefit trust funds. Among her clients are Teamsters Local 952 and the Orange County Central Labor Council. Teamster's Local 952 recently had a successful strike against Coca-Cola enterprises of Southern California resulting in the protection of employees and retirees health benefits.

Florice has been active in her community for many years and has served on the Board of the Orange County Industrial Relations Research Association ("OCCIRA") for more than ten years. Florice is currently a board member of the Orange Senior Center; an at large representative for the Orange Unified School District Legislative Coalition and the legislative chair for the Orange County Chapter of the CLUW. Florice also serves on the Central Committee and the Executive Board of the Democratic Party of Orange County, and as a delegate to the California State Democratic Party.

Florice received her B.A. from Brandeis University in 1980 and her Juris Doctorate from Rutgers School of Law in 1984. Florice lives in Orange, California with her twin teenage sons, Daniel & Gabriel.