Fremont is a city in Alameda County,California,located in the East Bay region of the Bay Area. Fremont has a population of 230,504 as of 2020,making it the fourth most populous city in the Bay Area,behind San Jose,San Francisco,and Oakland. It is the closest East Bay city to the high-tech Silicon Valley network of businesses,and has a strong tech industry presence.
San Jose,officially San José,is the largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2020 population of 1,013,240,it is the third-most populous city in California and the tenth-most populous in the United States. Located in the center of the Santa Clara Valley,on the southern shore of San Francisco Bay,San Jose covers an area of 179.97 sq mi (466.1 km2). San Jose is the county seat of Santa Clara County,the most affluent county in California and one of the most affluent counties in the United States. San Jose is the main component of the San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara Metropolitan Statistical Area,with an estimated population of around 2 million residents in 2018. It is also the most populous city in both the San Francisco Bay Area and the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland Combined Statistical Area,which contain 7.7 million and 9.7 million people respectively.
Cambrian is a neighborhood of San Jose,California,located in West San Jose. Though most of the neighborhood is incorporated as part of San Jose,a small portion exists as an unincorporated census-designated place called Cambrian Park.
Susan Ellen "Zoe" Lofgren is an American lawyer and politician serving as a U.S. representative from California. A member of the Democratic Party,Lofgren is in her 13th term in Congress,having been first elected in 1994.
Christine T. Kehoe is an American politician from San Diego,California. A Democrat,she served from 2004 to 2012 as a member of the California State Senate,representing the 39th district. She was previously a member of the California State Assembly (2000–2004),and of San Diego City Council (1993–2000).
Toni Gayle Atkins is an American politician serving as the 51st and current President pro tempore of the California State Senate since 2018. A member of the Democratic Party,she previously served as the 69th Speaker of the California State Assembly from 2014 to 2016. She has represented the 39th State Senate district since 2016,encompassing most of San Diego.
Madison Nguyen is an American politician from California. She served on the San Jose,California,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.
Judith Francisca Baca is an artist,activist,and professor of Chicano studies,world arts,and cultures based at the University of California,Los Angeles. She is the co-founder and artistic director of the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) in Venice,California. Baca is the director of the mural project that created the Great Wall of Los Angeles,which is the largest communal mural project in the world.
Cindy Chavez is an American politician who serves as the Santa Clara County supervisor representing district two,which is home to nearly 400,000 residents in Downtown,East,and South San Jose. Her public service career began in the 1990s as a policy analyst for health care,public health,human services and transportation for the Board of Supervisors. She served two terms on the San Jose City Council,where she was also Vice Mayor,and also served on the board leadership of public agencies such as the San Jose Redevelopment Agency,and executive director of Working Partnerships USA and the South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council. She is a graduate of San Jose State University,is married and has a son in high school.
Linda Joan LeZotte is an American politician from San Jose,California. She served on the San Jose City Council,representing District 1 from 1999 to 2007. She is an attorney and former member of the San Jose Planning Commission (1992-1998). She lost to City Councilmember Ken Yeager in the 2006 race for a seat on the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors. From 1999 to 2015 she practiced law with her own law firm and during that period she served as Counsel for Berliner Cohen in San Jose.
Nora Campos is an American politician from California. Campos is a 2020 candidate to California's 15th State Senate district. She served on the San Jose City Council and then in the California State Assembly. She is a representative on the California Commission on the Status of Women and Girls and a member of the Latino Caucus of the League of California Cities. While a State assemblywoman,Campos was chair of the Arts,Entertainment,Sports,Tourism,and Internet Media Committee,and of the Status of Girls and Women of Color Committee.
Ken Yeager is an American politician. He served on the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors,representing District 4. First elected to the board in 2006,he represented the cities of Campbell and Santa Clara,as well as west San Jose and the Burbank and Cambrian neighborhoods. Previously,Yeager served on the San Jose City Council from 2000 to 2006. Before that,he served two terms on the San Jose/Evergreen Community College Board. He was a candidate for the 23rd district seat in the California State Assembly in 1996,coming in second.
Nancy Pyle is an American former Democratic Party politician from California,serving on the San Jose City Council,representing District 10 from 2005 to 2012.
Judy May Chu is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for California's 27th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party,she has held a seat in Congress since 2009,representing California's 32nd congressional district until redistricting. Chu is the first Chinese American woman elected to Congress.
Ellen Marie Corbett is an American Democratic politician from the San Francisco Bay Area. She served in the California State Senate,representing the 10th District,which included San Leandro,Hayward,Pleasanton,Union City,Fremont,Newark,Milpitas,and part of San Jose. She was the Senate Majority Leader.
Rebecca Cohn is an American politician who served as the California State Assembly member for the 24th District from 2000 to 2006. A resident of Saratoga,her district also included the Buena Vista,Burbank,Cambrian Park,and Fruitdale neighbourhoods of San Jose,the city of Campbell,parts of both unincorporated Santa Clara County,and the city of Santa Clara,as well as a section of the town of Los Gatos. Cohn is a Democrat. She left office in 2007 because of term limits,and was succeeded by Jim Beall. In August 2008,she enrolled at the University of California,Davis School of Law.
Judith "Judy" Roitman is a mathematician,a retired professor at the University of Kansas. She specializes in set theory,topology,Boolean algebras,and mathematics education.
Sherri Schuler Lightner is an American politician,businesswoman,engineer,and community activist who served as a member of the San Diego City Council for District 1,from November 2008 to 2017. She is a Democrat,although council positions are officially nonpartisan.
Connie Young Yu is a Chinese American writer,historian,and lecturer. She is "the author of countless articles and four books:... through articles,essays,lectures,and community activities,she has devoted her energies for more than a quarter of a century in rediscovering a history of Chinese and Asian America that has,for the most part,been forgotten,overlooked,and even hidden.".
Patricia "Patty" Wong is the city librarian of Santa Clara,California. Wong is the President of the American Library Association (ALA) for the 2021-2022 term and is the first Asian American president of the ALA. She has been on the faculty at the San Jose State University iSchool since 2006,teaching subjects such as equitable access to library services,library management,and library services to young people.
