COX, TJ, a Representative from California; born in Walnut Creek, Contra Costa County, Calif., July 18, 1963; B.S., University of Nevada, Reno, Nev., 1986; M.B.A., Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Tex., 1999; engineer; non-profit executive; unsuccessful candidate for election to the One Hundred Tenth Congress in 2006; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Sixteenth Congress (January 3, 2019-January 3, 2021); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Seventeenth Congress in 2020.