"You quickly learn if you sit there and watch any committee hearings, 'I can do that,'" she said.
Kuehl has missed several meetings of the Board of Overseers recently because of the campaign but said she plans to continue her work on the board's committee on the social sciences.
Under California's term limits laws, Kuehl could not have run again for state assembly. The state senator she expects to replace in the fall, Tom Hayden, has also reached his term limit.
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The official results of the primary were: Kuehl, 92,298 votes (64 percent); Wally Knox, 53,045 votes (36 percent). Rego received all 32,015 votes in the Republican primary.