( Matt Ortega )

Freshman member of Congress, Jackie Speier, confirmed she is contemplating a run for attorney general in California.

The buzz that Speier, a freshman congresswoman and 20-year veteran of the state Legislature, was weighing a run was first reported by The San Francisco Chronicle’s Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross and confirmed by Speier at a Thursday appearance in San Mateo.

San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris, Facebook executive Chris Kelly, former Los Angeles District Attorney Rocky Delgadillo and Assemblymen Ted Lieu, Pedro Nava, and Alberto Torrico are all vying to be the Democrats’ nominee for to be the state’s top law enforcement official.

Speier, then-state senator, won a special election after the death of the late Tom Lantos, a Holocaust survivor.

Tags: CA-AG, Jackie Speier