Pelosi will run for re-election to her seat in the House of Representatives. She became the first woman to hold the post in 2007.
She was elected to the House in 2008 after a landslide victory in the previous election. She is the daughter of a former mayor of San Francisco, who died in 2011 at the age of 78. She has been a member of the House since 1987, when she was elected in a special election to replace the late Edith Whittaker, who had died.