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.
Lincoln Law School of San Jose is a private,non-profit law school located in San Jose,California. Founded in 1926,the law school was formerly part of Lincoln University,prior to achieving independence as an institution in 1993.
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.
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.
David Dominic Cortese is an elected official from San Jose,California. He is currently serving in the California State Senate,representing District 15,which encompasses a majority of Santa Clara County. Before being elected to the California State Senate,Cortese served on the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors for 12 years,as a Councilman and Vice Mayor for the City of San Jose for eight years,and for eight years as a trustee for the East Side Union High School District in San Jose. Cortese ran for mayor of San Jose and won the primary,losing the general election to District 3 councilmember Sam Liccardo.
Pete Constant is an American politician from California,formerly Councilmember for District 1 of the San Jose,California City Council. Constant is a former San Jose Police Officer (1989–2000) and has owned several photography businesses. Constant was elected to the City Council during the June 2006 Primary Election and was sworn into office in January 2007.
Sally J. Lieber is a Mountain View City Councilwoman and was a Democratic California State Assembly woman and former Mountain View City Councilwoman and Mayor. She represented the 22nd Assembly District that includes the cities of Belmont,Millbrae,Mountain View,Sunnyvale,Cupertino and portions of Santa Clara and San Jose which are all located in Santa Clara County.
Alberto Torrico was elected to the California State Assembly in 2004. He served for 6 years,including two years as Majority Leader.
Otto Oswald Lee is a Hong Kong-born American politician,attorney,and military veteran who was a Sunnyvale,California city council member from 2003 to 2011,before which he was on the Planning Commission,which he chaired from 2000 to 2001. From 2005 to 2006 he was vice mayor,and from 2006 to 2007 he was the 57th mayor of Sunnyvale. He is a patent attorney,and a co-founder and partner of the Intellectual Property Law Group LLP.
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.
Laurie Smith is Sheriff of Santa Clara County,California,and the first female County Sheriff in the history of the state.
Luis Angel Alejo is an American politician who served in the California State Assembly representing the 30th Assembly District,encompassing the Pajaro and Salinas valleys.
Edward John Davila is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and a former judge on the Superior Court of California for Santa Clara County.
The San Jose City Council,officially San JoséCity Council,is the legislature of the government of the City of San Jose,California.
Murlene Johnson Randle is a judge of the San Francisco County Superior Court since 2020. She is the former Director of the Office of Criminal Justice for San Francisco and a Discrimination Attorney.
Eileen A. Kato is an American lawyer,retired judge,and member of the American Bar Association's Justice Kennedy Commission on Sentencing,and past chair of the American Bar Association's Conference on Specialized Court Judges.
Stephen Estey is a California attorney at law,the founding partner of Estey &Bomberger,LLP a personal injury law firm in San Diego,CA,and a child molestation victims attorney.
Ann Miller Ravel is an American attorney who was a Democratic Commissioner on the Federal Election Commission (FEC),an independent regulatory agency created by Congress to administer and enforce campaign finance law.
Blanca Alvarado is an American social activist and former politician. She was the first Latina elected to San Jose City Council and the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors and the first Latina to serve as the board's chairperson.
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.
