Brian Dahle

Dahle took office as a State Senator on June 12, 2019.

In June 2019, after winning his seat in the California State Senate, Dahle held a "Faith and Values Town Hall" at a church in Redding. While elected officials are expected to reach out to their constituents, Dahle's former opponent, Silke Pflueger, criticised him, saying it was inappropriate for an elected official to invite a selected group to a town hall meeting and to then hold that meeting on that group's site. While Dahle's office pushed back that the invite was open to the public, the invite included the text, "Christians from local churches are invited." Redding's demographic is 73% non-religious, where two-thirds of the religious population are adherents to Protestantism. In response to a request for comment, a co-speaker at the event, Redding Mayor Winter responded, "I want to say, for the record, that I wholeheartedly agree with the principle of the separation of church and state." Adding, "That does not mean that people of faith should not be involved in government."

Dahle was appointed in 2018 by Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon to serve on the Subcommittee on Sexual Harassment Prevention and Response, which is working to improve services for staff in the Capitol.

Dahle was elected by his Assembly Republican colleagues to serve as their Leader on August 24, 2017. He served in this leadership role from September 15, 2017 to November 8, 2018.

Dahle was first elected to the State Assembly in November 2012 with 65.6% of the vote. He was reelected in 2014 with 70.2% of the vote, and again in 2016 with 73.76%.

He married his wife Megan in 1999. When his parents retired, Dahle and his wife purchased the farm. He and his wife have three children.

Elected to the Lassen County Board of Supervisors in 1996, Brian helped ensure that the Lassen County budget was balanced. While he served as a supervisor, he helped them become completely debt free.

Brian Dahle (born September 20, 1965) is an American politician serving in the California State Senate. He is a Republican representing the 1st district, encompassing the Shasta Cascade region and the northern Sierra Nevada. Prior to being elected to the state Legislature, he was a Lassen County Supervisor for 16 years. He was first elected to the Assembly in 2012, and re-elected in 2014, 2016, and 2018. On June 4, 2019, Dahle won a special election to fill the State Senate seat vacated by Ted Gaines, who resigned after his election to the California Board of Equalization.

Their present Lassen County farm, in Bieber, California, was purchased in the 1940s by Brian's grandparents and has remained as the family farm since that time.

The son and grandson of a farmer, Dahle grew up in rural Northern California, in Lassen County. His family history dates back to their original homestead farm in the 1930s in the Tulelake area of Siskiyou County.