Janet Nguyen

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Janet Nguyen
Member of the Orange County Board of Supervisors from the 1st District
Incumbent
Assumed office December 4, 2024
Preceded by	Andrew Do
In office March 27, 2007 – December 1, 2014
Preceded by	Lou Correa
Succeeded by	Andrew Do
Member of the California Senate
In office December 7, 2022 – November 30, 2024
Preceded by	Patricia Bates
Constituency	36th district
In office December 1, 2014 – November 30, 2018
Preceded by	Lou Correa
Succeeded by	Tom Umberg
Constituency	34th district
Member of the California State Assembly from the 72nd district
In office December 7, 2020 – December 5, 2022
Preceded by	Tyler Diep
Succeeded by	Diane Dixon
Member of the Garden Grove City Council
In office December 14, 2004 – March 27, 2007
Preceded by	Van Tran
Succeeded by	Steve Jones
Personal details
Born	(1976-05-01) May 1, 1976 (age 48) Saigon, Republic of South Vietnam
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Tom Bonikowski Jr. ​ (m. 2005)​
Children	Thomas III and Timothy

Janet Q. Nguyen (born May 1, 1976) is an American politician serving on the Orange County Board of Supervisors, representing the First District, since December 4, 2024 and previously holding the same office from 2007 to 2014. A Republican, she served in the California State Senate from 2014 to 2018 and 2022 to 2024 and the California State Assembly from 2020 to 2022.

She is the first Vietnamese-American state Senator in the United States and the country's first Vietnamese-American woman state legislator. At the age of 30, she was the youngest person to be elected to the board of supervisors, the first woman to be elected from the First District, and the first Vietnamese-American county supervisor in the United States. Prior to her election to the Board of Supervisors, she served as a Garden Grove City Council Member and at age 28, was the youngest person ever elected to that body, until Kim Nguyen (no relation) was elected at 25 in 2016.