Amar Shergill is a former Executive Board Member with the California Democratic Party and Chair Emeritus of the Progressive Caucus, the largest organization within the Party. In this role, he helped lead Party delegates to support progressive issues and hold Party leadership accountable to its members. He’s also a father of three and a trial lawyer practicing in personal injury and wrongful death cases. Amar has an active pro bono practice and has held a number of leadership positions in South Asian and Sikh community organizations. He is often quoted in national media as a leading voice of the Progressive movement in California. Amar was the founding President of the South Asian Bar Association of Sacramento and received the Cornerstone Award from the National Association of South Asian Bar Associations. In 2015, he wrote California Assembly & Senate Resolution 34, the first major governmental resolution in the world which recognized the culpability of the government of India in the November 1984 Genocide of Sikhs, passed unanimously. He has also helped lead efforts in California to ban discrimination in the workplace
based on religious clothing and caste.
