Chuck DeVore represents California's 70th Assembly District, an area that includes about 450,000 people in the Orange County communities of Aliso Viejo, Irvine, Laguna Beach, Laguna Woods, Lake Forest, Newport Beach, and Tustin. His legislative committee assignments are: Vice Chairman of Veterans Affairs; Revenue and Taxation; and, Budget. He was elected in 2004 and reelected in 2006.

Before his election Chuck worked for SM&A, a $75 million per year aerospace engineering and management services firm as the Vice President for Research and for Communications.

Chuck currently serves in the California Army National Guard. He holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. His Army service has taken him to Korea and Panama. He supported Operation Desert Storm from Ft. Irwin, CA, and he patrolled the streets of Los Angeles during the riots in 1992. His awards include the Meritorious Service Medal, the Army Commendation Medal with bronze oak leaf cluster, the Army Achievement Medal with two bronze oak leaf clusters, and several others. He is a graduate of the Command and General Staff College and the Combined Arms Staff Services School.

Chuck served as a Reagan White House appointee in the Pentagon from 1986 to 1988.

As Special Assistant for Foreign Affairs his duties included working with Congress to advance the President’s foreign and military policy.  Chuck’s official travels took him to Asia, Europe, Africa, and Central America. His initiative helped develop the Arrow Anti-Ballistic Missile program.

His opinion pieces have appeared in Human Events, the Orange County Register, the Asian Wall Street Journal, the Taipei Times, the Jamestown Review, the U.S. Army's Red Thrust Star, and many others.

Chuck moved to Orange County in 1980 and has lived in the 70th Assembly District since 1988.  Married in 1988, Chuck and his wife Diane have two daughters, Jennie, born in 1991, and Amy, born in 1997.