Terrence (Terry) Goggin (born November 8, 1941) is an American author, businessman, educator, and politician in the state of California.

[2] After he was accused of defrauding investors in a chain of coffee shops, Goggin pleaded guilty to one count of money laundering in December 2019,[4] and was sentenced to one year and one day in prison in February 2021.

[2] In 1959 Goggin left Glendale for Georgetown University, College of Arts and Sciences where he was elected president of the 160-year-old Philodemic Debating Society, with a seat on the Student Council.

While there he was accepted into the Southern California Law Review and published two separate articles on the difficulty of obtaining a fair trial in the midst of massive negative publicity.

[8] In 1965 and 1966, while finishing law school, Goggin conducted legal research in the California Attorney General's Office in the Consumer Fraud and Anti Trust Division.

The seminar focused on Race, Environment, and Central Cities; one of the first courses in the country to offer classes in current economic and social problems using a case method approach.

[citation needed] Based on the seminar, along with Mick Seidel, his co-author, he published Politics American Style: Race, Environment, and Central Cities (Prentice-Hall, 1972).

[13] In 1976 he was appointed Chairman of the Assembly Subcommittee on Energy and investigated the question of whether and where to site Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) plants.

[16] In 1981, after a bitter and divisive Speakership fight, the new Speaker Willie Brown appointed him Chairman of the Criminal Justice Committee.

In 1984, due in part, to the strong and often harsh opposition of the energy companies and the police unions for his legislation, Goggin was defeated in an extremely close race in the Democratic primary in 1984.

[24] In November 2018, a federal grand jury in Oakland, California indicted Goggin for allegedly defrauding investors in a chain of Peet's Coffee stands inside BART stations and using the funds for personal expenses.

[5][6][7] In 1963 Goggin married Jill Anne Tronvig, a graduate of Scripps College Claremont and a teacher[27] who was born in Los Angeles California.