Rep. Josh Shapiro, 37, serves the 153rd Legislative District in Montgomery County in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Shapiro is a committed public servant who has worked in federal and state government for more than 15 years and was named "Best State Legislator" by Philadelphia Magazine. Shapiro was first elected to the House in 2004 and re-elected in 2006, 2008 and 2010, and served as deputy speaker of the House from 2006-2008.

While in the state House, Shapiro has authored and led the fight to implement the farthest-reaching ethics and government reform agenda in a generation.

As co-chairman of the Speakers’ Commission on Legislative Reform, Shapiro led an effort to pass more than 30 reforms to state law and the House rules, including a revamped Open Records Law that dramatically exposed the inner workings of state government to public scrutiny. Shapiro also sponsored the first major rewrite of the House rules in decades that opened up House proceedings to the public, eliminated certain legislative perks and made House expenditures subject to public disclosure. As chairman of the Legislative Audit Committee, Shapiro secured unanimous support to recommend that the General Assembly return its nearly $200 million surplus to the taxpayers and establish stricter financial controls over the expenditure of state funds.

In addition to his work to promote ethics and reform of state government, Shapiro has focused on increasing access and affordability of college for Pennsylvania’s students, protecting Pennsylvania's pension funds, investing in early childhood education, expanding access to health care, and critical consumer protection measures.

Shapiro has earned a reputation as a bipartisan consensus builder and has been recognized nationally for his efforts. He was one of 24 elected officials nationwide, and the first Pennsylvania official, to be selected for the prestigious Aspen Institute-Rodel Fellowship in Public Leadership program. The two-year fellowship focuses on the ethics and responsibilities of public leadership and the study of democratic values.

Before his public service in the Pennsylvania state House, Shapiro served as a senior aide on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. from 1995-2003.

Shapiro is a 1995 magna cum laude graduate of the University of Rochester and received his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in 2002. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar.

Shapiro was raised in Upper Dublin Township and he and his family live in Abington Township in Montgomery County. He is married to his high school sweetheart, Lori. The couple has four young children, Sophia, Jonah, Max and Reuben.