Richard Charles Blum was an American investor and the husband of United States Senator Dianne Feinstein. He was the chairman and president of Blum Capital,an equity investment management firm. Blum was on the boards of directors of several companies,including CB Richard Ellis,where until May 2009 he served as the chairman of that board. He was a regent of the University of California from 2002 until his death.
The University of California College of the Law,San Francisco is a public law school in San Francisco,California,United States. It was known as the University of California,Hastings College of the Law from 1878 to 2023.
Terence Hallinan was an American attorney and politician from San Francisco,California. He was the second of six sons born to Progressive Party presidential candidate Vincent Hallinan and his wife,Vivian (Moore) Hallinan. Hallinan was educated at the London School of Economics,University of California,Berkeley,and University of California,Hastings College of the Law. He practiced privately in San Francisco.
Dale Minami is a prominent Japanese American civil rights and personal injury lawyer based in San Francisco,California. He is best known for his work leading the legal team that overturned the conviction of Fred Korematsu,whose defiance of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II led to Korematsu v. United States,which is widely considered one of the worst and most racist Supreme Court decisions in American history.
Clara Shortridge Foltz was an American lawyer,the first female lawyer on the West Coast,and the pioneer of the idea of the public defender. The Criminal Courts Building in downtown Los Angeles was renamed after her in 2002,and is now known as the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center.
Geoffrey Francis Brown,known as Jeff Brown,is an American attorney and retired government official. From 2001 to 2007,Brown served as a member of the California Public Utilities Commission.
Serranus Clinton Hastings was an American politician,rancher and lawyer in California. He studied law as a young man and moved to the Iowa District in 1837 to open a law office. Iowa became a territory a year later,and he was elected a member of the House of Representatives of the Iowa Territorial General Assembly. When the territory became the state of Iowa in 1846,he won an election to represent the state in the United States House of Representatives. After his term ended,he became Chief Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court.
Jeffrey Gordon Adachi was an American attorney,pension reform advocate,and politician who served as the Public Defender of San Francisco from 2003 to 2019.
John Lowell Burton is an American politician who served in both the California State Assembly and the United States House of Representatives. He was a member of the Democratic Party and represented California's 5th and 6th congressional districts.
Sean Elsbernd is an American politician who represented District 7 on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. District 7 includes neighborhoods west of Twin Peaks,the Villas at Parkmerced,Lake Merced,Miraloma Park,Harding Park Golf Course,San Francisco State University,City College of San Francisco,and Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center.
Carmen Chu is an American politician serving as City Administrator of the City and County of San Francisco. She previously served as the city's assessor-recorder,where she was the only Asian-American assessor elected to serve among the 58 counties in the State of California. Prior to being elected assessor-recorder,Chu served as a member of the San Francisco board of supervisors,where she served two terms as the chair of the board's budget and finance committee,and was a board director of the Golden Gate Bridge,Highway and Transportation District. Before joining the board of supervisors,Chu served as deputy budget director in the mayor's office of public policy and finance. In July 2022,she was appointed to the Regents of the University of California by Governor Gavin Newsom.
The San Francisco Board of Education is the school board for the City and County of San Francisco. It is composed of seven Commissioners,elected by voters across the city to serve 4-year terms. It is subject to local,state,and federal laws,and determines policy for all the K-12 public schools in the San Francisco Unified School District.
Aurora is an outdoor stainless steel fountain and sculpture completed in 1986 by Ruth Asawa,installed at Bayside Plaza at Howard Street in San Francisco,California,United States.
The San Francisco Public Defender's Office is an agency of the Government of San Francisco. Since 1921,it has provided legal assistance to indigent individuals charged with violations of California state law by the San Francisco District Attorney's Office.
Katherine Anne Feinstein is an American attorney,public official,and former judge who currently serves as President of the San Francisco Fire Commission. Feinstein previously served as Presiding Judge of the San Francisco Superior Court from 2010 to 2012 and as a Superior Court judge from 2000 to 2012.
Matthew Craig Haney is an American politician from San Francisco currently serving as a member of the California State Assembly from the 17th district,covering the eastern portion of the city. A progressive member of the Democratic Party,Haney had represented District 6 on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from 2019 to 2022 and previously served as a commissioner on the San Francisco Board of Education from 2013 to 2019.
Dean E. Preston is an American attorney and member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. In November 2019,Preston won a special election to finish Mayor London Breed's term on the Board of Supervisors. He was re-elected in the November 2020 election.
The 2022 San Francisco Board of Education recall elections were held on February 15,2022. In a landslide election,over two-thirds of voters chose to remove three San Francisco Board of Education Commissioners—Alison Collins,Board President Gabriela Lopez,and Faauuga Moliga—from office. All three commissioners were replaced by appointees chosen by Mayor London Breed. The other four members of the school board were not eligible for recall at this time.
The 2022 San Francisco District Attorney special election was held on November 8,2022,following the successful recall of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin. It was held concurrent with the 2022 statewide general elections.
