Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi (pronounced
/pəˈloʊsi/; born March 26, 1940) is the 60th and current
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Before being elected Speaker in the
110th Congress, she was the
House Minority Leader from 2003 to 2007, holding the post during the
108th and
109th Congresses.
A member of the
Democratic Party, Pelosi has represented the
8th Congressional District of
California, which consists of four-fifths of the
City and County of San Francisco, since 1987. The district was numbered as the
5th during Pelosi's first three terms in the House.
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