San Bernardino is a city in and the county seat of San Bernardino County,California,United States. Located in the Inland Empire region of Southern California,the city had a population of 222,101 in the 2020 census,making it the 18th-largest city in California. San Bernardino is the economic,cultural,and political hub of the San Bernardino Valley and the Inland Empire. The governments of El Salvador,Guatemala,and Mexico have established the metropolitan area's only consulates in the downtown area of the city. Additionally,San Bernardino serves as an anchor city to the 3rd largest metropolitan area in California and the 12th largest metropolitan area in the United States;the San Bernardino–Riverside MSA. Furthermore,the city's University District serves as a college town,as home to California State University,San Bernardino.
Vietnamese Americans are Americans of Vietnamese ancestry. They comprise a major part of all overseas Vietnamese. As of 2023,approximately 2.3 million people of Vietnamese descent live in the United States,making them one of the largest Asian American ethnic groups. The majority (60%) are immigrants,while 40% were born in the United States.
Little Saigon is a name given to ethnic enclaves of expatriate Vietnamese mainly in English-speaking countries. Alternate names include Little Vietnam and Little Hanoi,depending on the enclave's political history. To avoid political undertones due to the renaming of Saigon to Ho Chi Minh City,it is occasionally called by the neutral name Vietnamtown. Saigon is the former name of the capital of the former South Vietnam,where a large number of first-generation Vietnamese immigrants emigrating to the United States originate from,whereas Hanoi is the current capital of Vietnam.
Virginia Bruce was an American actress and singer.
Madison Nguyen is an American politician from California. She served on the San Jose City Council from 2005 to 2014,representing District 7,and she additionally served as Vice-Mayor from 2011 to 2014. She was the first Vietnamese-American elected to the city council.
California is the most populous US state,with an estimated population of 38.9 million as of 2023. It has people from a wide variety of ethnic,racial,national,and religious backgrounds.
Janet Q. Nguyen is an American politician serving on the Orange County Board of Supervisors,representing the First District,since December 4,2024 and previously holding the same office from 2007 to 2014. A Republican,she served in the California State Senate from 2014 to 2018 and 2022 to 2024 and the California State Assembly from 2020 to 2022.
Michelle Eunjoo Steel is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for California's 45th congressional district since 2023,previously representing the 48th congressional district from 2021 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party,she concurrently served as a member of House Minority Whip Steve Scalise's Whip Team for the 117th Congress. Steel ran for re-election to a third term in 2024,but she was defeated in the general election by Democratic challenger Derek Tran.
Hiep Thi Le was an American actress. She is known for her portrayal of Le Ly in Oliver Stone's war drama film Heaven &Earth (1993).
Helen Crlenkovich was one of the most successful athletes in America and the world on the three-meter springboard and the ten-meter platform. She was a Croatian American known to friends and family as "Klinky." Both of her parents were from Croatia:mother Anka Tomin was from Petrijevci,and father Adam from Banićevac near Cernik.
The Inland Empire is a metropolitan area and region inland of and adjacent to coastal Southern California,centering around the cities of San Bernardino and Riverside,and bordering Los Angeles County and Orange County to the west and San Diego County to the south. The bulk of the population is centered in the cities of northwestern Riverside County and southwestern San Bernardino County,and is sometimes considered to include the desert communities of the Coachella and Victor Valleys,respectively on the other sides of the San Gorgonio Pass and San Bernardino Mountains from the Santa Ana River watershed that forms the bulk of the Inland Empire;a much broader definition includes all of Riverside and San Bernardino counties. The combined land area of the counties of the Inland Empire is larger than ten U.S. states—West Virginia,Maryland,Hawaii,Massachusetts,Vermont,New Hampshire,New Jersey,Connecticut,Delaware and Rhode Island.
Kelly Marie Tran is an American actress. She began acting in 2011,with most of her roles being in short film and television. She came to global prominence for her role as Rose Tico in the Star Wars sequel trilogy films The Last Jedi (2017) and The Rise of Skywalker (2019). She also voiced Raya in the Disney film Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) and Dawn Betterman in the DreamWorks Animation film The Croods:A New Age (2020).
Judith Valles is an American educator and former politician. She was the first Hispanic mayor of San Bernardino.
Gloria McMillan was an American actress who worked extensively in radio,but is perhaps best known for her role as Harriet Conklin,the student of Miss Brooks and the daughter of Principal Osgood Conklin,on the 1950s sitcom Our Miss Brooks.
John Valdivia is an American politician who served as the 34th mayor of San Bernardino,California. Valdivia was unsuccessful in his bid for re-election in the 2022 San Bernardino mayoral election. In 2021,Valdivia became the first elected official in 20 years to be censured by the San Bernardino City Council for alleged misuse of public funds.
Stephanie Nguyen is an American politician in the California State Assembly representing the 10th district. Elected in 2022,she previously served on the Elk Grove City Council after being appointed in 2017.
As part of the 2022 United States elections,throughout the year various elections were held at the local level,including the office of mayor,as well as several other municipal and county-level positions. A number of major U.S. cities held mayoral elections in 2022,and saw incumbent mayors re-elected,including Fort Smith,Arkansas;Little Rock,Arkansas;Tallahassee,Florida;Lexington,Kentucky;Flint,Michigan;Reno,Nevada;Newark,New Jersey;Charlotte,North Carolina,and Raleigh,North Carolina;Oklahoma City,Oklahoma;Clarksville,Tennessee;Murfreesboro,Tennessee;Denton,Texas;and Washington,D.C..
The 2022 San Bernardino mayoral election was held on November 8,2022,to elect the mayor of San Bernardino,California. San Bernardino uses a top-two primary,and the first round of voting was held on June 7,2022. Candidates could win the election outright by receiving more than 50% of the vote,but no candidate received a majority. Seven candidates took part in the primary election,including incumbent mayor John Valdivia,former City Attorney from 1987 to 2013 Jim Penman,and San Bernardino Director of Human Resources Helen Tran.
Jocelyn Yow is a Malaysian Chinese Vietnamese American politician who currently serves as city councilmember of District 4 in Eastvale,California. She also serves as the Legislative Advocacy Director at IGNITE National,a non-profit organization that works to elect young women into office. On December 10,2020,Yow was sworn in as mayor of Eastvale,making her the youngest woman of color to serve as mayor in a California city.
