Candidate for
Board Member; Kern Community College District; Trustee Area 3

Kevin McCarthy is currently the District Representative for Congressman Bill Thomas (R-Bakersfield). Kevin is responsible for the management and operations of the 21st Congressional District. Congressman Thomas is Chairman of the Committee on House Administration and Chairs the Health subcommittee on the Ways and Means Committee.

In 1998, Governor Pete Wilson appointed Kevin to serve on the Board of the Health Professions Education Foundation. McCarthy also serves on the Board of the Kern County Food Bank.

Kevin is the President of yrock.com (Young Republican Online Community networK) - one of the first politically based Internet Service Providers in the country. Yrock.com has been featured on ABC's Good Morning America, MSNBC, Rivera Live, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Don Imus' and Rush Limbaugh's Radio Shows.

McCarthy was selected by Governor George W. Bush to speak and serve as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia.

McCarthy received both his undergraduate and Masters in Business Administration degrees from California State University, Bakersfield.

Kevin and his wife, Judy, have two children, Connor (6) and Meghan (4).