Members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors

The Board of Supervisors as of March 2023 (official group photo)

The Board of Supervisors meets in San Francisco City Hall.

Former United States Senator Dianne Feinstein served as supervisor from 1970 to 1978 and as president in 1978.

Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected public official in California, served as supervisor in 1978.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is the legislative body of San Francisco, California, United States. The body consists of eleven members elected from single-member districts through ranked choice voting.

From 1977 to 1979, and starting again in 2000, supervisors were elected from eleven single-member districts. Prior to 1977 and from 1980 to 1998, members were elected at-large, all running on one ballot, with the top vote-getters winning office. In 1980, elections shifted from odd-numbered years to even-numbered years, and because of the shift from district to at-large elections, all seats were up for election, with some members winning four-year terms and some winning two-year terms. Similar cases of supervisors elected to truncated terms happened in 1977 and 2000, when elections shifted to district elections.

Several members were initially appointed by the mayor. San Francisco's city charter gives the mayor the power to fill any vacancies ^[1] and to suspend members in limited circumstances; ^[2] the latter case has happened only once, when Mayor Gavin Newsom suspended Ed Jew due to allegations of lying about his residency and extortion. ^[3] A few members were elected to the board, but appointed to their seat by the mayor during the weeks between the election and the beginning of their term. This has generally been done when supervisors were elected to the state legislature, since the terms of state legislators begin earlier than those of supervisors. The most recent example occurred in 2008, when David Campos was elected to the District 9 seat held by Tom Ammiano. In the same election, Ammiano was elected to the California State Assembly and resigned his seat a month early to take his new office. Mayor Gavin Newsom appointed Campos to the seat on December 4, 2008, a month before he would otherwise have taken office. ^[4]

Board presidents

The president of the Board of Supervisors presides over all board meetings and appoints members to board committees, among other duties. Board presidents are elected by their colleagues at the beginning of every odd-numbered year, or when a vacancy arises in the office. ^[5] From 1983 to 2001, the city charter specified that the president would be the highest vote-getter in the previous election, taking the power of electing the board president away from the supervisors themselves, except in the case of a vacancy in the post. ^{[6] [7]}

Board members

No official list of supervisors in office prior to 1906 exists as the 1906 San Francisco earthquake destroyed all Board of Supervisors records. However, the names of San Francisco supervisors are recorded in many documents and newspapers from the time.

San Francisco Common Council

The San Francisco Common Council was the predecessor of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. The Common Council was made up of the Board of Aldermen and the Board of Assistant Aldermen, each composed of one member elected from each of the city's eight wards. The first elections to these posts took place on May 1, 1850 (the same day as the vote on the city charter), and the Common Council took office on May 6, 1850. ^[8] The Common Council had authority only within the city limits, which stretched west to Divisadero and Castro streets and south to 20th Street. ^[9]

The seventh and last Common Council served until July 1856, when under the Consolidation Act that unified city and county government in San Francisco, the Common Council was replaced by the first Board of Supervisors. ^[8]

Four-member board (July–November 1856)

The first Board of Supervisors served only from July 8 to November 15, 1856, and consisted of one justice of the peace for each of the city's four districts. These four men chose George J. Whelan as the city's mayor and president of the board.

Year	President	District
		1	2	3	4
July–November 1856	George J. Whelan	Lawrence Ryan	E.W. Smith	C.M. Chamberlain	David B. Castree

12 members elected by district (1856–1899)

Supervisors from the 19th century are listed in surviving copies of municipal reports, contemporary newspapers, and similar sources. ^{[8] [10]}

Year	Ward
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
November 1856 – 1857 [8]	Charles Wilson	W.A. Darling	W.K. Van Alen	M.R. Roberts	Samuel Merritt	Charles W. Bond [A]	H.A. George	N.C. Lane	W.L. Palmer	R.G. Sneath	J.J. Denny	S.S. Tilton
1858 [8]				L.B. Benchley		Thomas Tennent [B]
1859 [8]	Charles S. Biden		H.S. Gates		Thomas Young		J.S. Paxson		W. McKibbin		J.C. Corbett
1860 [8]		Joseph Britton		F.W. Brooks				J.S. Davies	W.B. Johnson	James Otis [G]	A.G. Randall [C] John C. Ayres [D]	John Lynch [E]
1861 [8]			H. De La Montaya		D. Gaven	H.L. Dodge	W.C. Hinckley		Eugene Crowell		Frank McCoppin
1862 [8]		Myles D. Sweeney		H.L. King				Gerritt W. Bell	John C. Merrill	J.H. Redington [H]		James W. Cudworth [F]
1863 [8]	A.H. Titcomb					Giles H. Gray
1864 [8]		John Fay			E.C. Kennedy A.S. Baldwin	E.N. Torrey				A.H. Cummings		Michael Cody
1865 [8]			Isaac Rowell		Monroe Ashbury		Charles Clayton		A.J. Shrader
1866 [8]		R.P. Clement		William S. Phelps				Jacob Schreiber		James H. Reynolds		Charles H. Stanyan
1867 [8]	P.H. Daly		W.B. Farman					F.G.E. Tittell
1868 [8]	Henry Winkle	John Harrold	Edward Flaherty	R. Beverly Cole		D.D. Shattuck		J.B.E. Cavallier		Edward Nunan	P.H. Canavan
1869 [8]							Richard Ring
1870 [8]				Timothy McCarthy		Alexander Badlam		Charles R. Story		James Adams		M.J. Kelly
1871 [8]	Stewart Menzies		James J. Kenney		Robert Goodwin		A.B. Forbes				Edward Commins
1872 [8]		H.F. Swain				Henry L. King				James Barrett		Samuel Penfield Taylor
1873
1874 [8]		William C. Pease		A.M. Ebbets	John R. Sims	James H. Deering	James B. Roberts	A.L. Wangenheim Abram Block	A.W. Scott	George Hewston	M. Lynch	D.A. Macdonald
1875 [8]								Abram Block
1876 [8]	August Drucker	C.B. Edwards	Thomas Bryan	John H. Wise	John P. Shine	Frederick W. Eaton	George W. Hayes	Fleet F. Strother	Thomas Boyce	John C. Roberts	Frederick A. Gibbs
1877
1878 [8]	John Foley	Martin Mangels	Horace L. Hill	Edwin Danforth	J. Henley Smith	James O. Rountree	John W. Farren	Thomas S. Ackerson	A.W. Scott	Robert Haight		Henry Brickwedel
1879 [8]			Thomas A. Talbert
1880 [8]	Antone Schottler	John Mason	J.M. Litchfield	Samuel Drake	James D. Whitney	Frank Eastman	Hugh Fraser	Charles L. Taylor	Micah Doane	Charles A. Bayly	Erastus N. Torrey	James B. Stetson
1881
1882 [8] [10]	William H. Bodfish	John C. McKew	John Shirley	John H. Carmany	Henry Molineaux	George Torrens	George B. Bradford	Charles A. Fisher	Oliver Merrill	Henry B. Russ	Nathan C. Parrish	John F. Kennedy
1883 [8] [10]	John T. Sullivan	John J. Reichenbach		Charles H. Burton	J. Henley Smith	Edward B. Pond	John D. Griffin	Fleet F. Strother	John B. Lewis	Herman Ranken	Jefferson G. James	Thomas Ashworth
1884
1885 [8] [10]	Justin Gates	Robert Roy	John E. Kunkler	John E. Abbott	Willard B. Farwell		James Williamson	David L. Farnsworth	Albert Heyer	James Gilleran	Daniel McMillan	Samuel Valleau
1886
1887 [8] [10] [11]	Hugh Curran	James M. McDonald	Colin M. Boyd	Joseph Pescia	Charles S. Bush	Aaron M. Burns	William Hawkins	Albert F. Knorp		William P. Lambert	Herman Joost	Sargent S. Morton
1888
1889 [8] [10]	Henry Bingham					Levi R. Ellert	Peter Wheelan	Diedrich Becker	Henry Pilster	Vincent Kingwell	David Barry	Patrick Noble
1890 [8]		Selden S. Wright
1891 [8] [10]	Henry Evans	David B. Jackson	James W. Burling	John. B. Curtis	Washington Ayer		George A. Carnes	Patrick J. Coffee	Albert Heyer	Denis D. Hunt	Charles W. Taber	William Wilkinson
1892 [8]	Joseph A. Artigues
1893 [8]	Michael Goodwin	Daniel Rogers	William Montgomery James I. Stanton C.W. Nevin	Patrick J. Kennedy	Sands W. Forman	Christian Reis	James Ryan	Robert Day	Patrick F. Dundon	William M. Hinton	Jefferson G. James	James Denman
1894
1895 [8]	Joseph King	Peter A. Scully	Charles E. Benjamin	Alphonse Hirsch	Joseph I. Dimond	Edward C. Hughes	Christopher Dunker	Charles L. Taylor	Alfred W. Morgenstern	Adolph B. Spreckels	John K.C. Hobbs	Edward L. Wagner
1896
1897 [8]	Lawrence Devany	Thomas H. Haskins	P.M. Delany	John H. Sheehan	Washington Dodge	John Lackmann	T.A. Rottanzi	Thomas Morton	James E. Britt	Edward J. Smith	Charles A. Clinton	Thomas W. Rivers
1898
1899 [12]	Edward Holland	Edward C. Kalben	Howard Black	Edward L. Perrault	William H. Phelps	John Lackmann	Lewis F. Byington	George W. Collins	Albert Heyer	Jeremiah Deasy	Arthur Attridge	Edward H. Algeltinger
Year	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
	Ward

• ^A Charles W. Bond resigned April 7, 1858.
• ^B Thomas Tennett took his seat May 21, 1858.
• ^C A.G. Randall resigned February 13, 1860.
• ^D John C. Ayres took his seat May 7, 1860.
• ^E John Lynch resigned October 7, 1861.
• ^F James W. Cudworth took his seat November 4, 1861.
• ^G James Otis resigned November 25, 1861, "as he is under the necessity of absenting himself from the State for the next few months".
• ^H J.H. Redington took his seat December 30, 1861.

18 members elected at-large, serving two-year terms (1900–1911)

Article II, Chapter I, Section 2 of the revised charter, ratified by voters on May 26, 1898, specified that "[t]he Board of Supervisors shall consist of eighteen members all of whom shall hold office for two years and be elected from the City and County at large." Former mayors of the city were allowed non-voting seats on the board. ^[13] In 1912, supervisors' terms were extended to four years. ^[14]

Year
1900 [15] [16]	James P. Booth	Charles Boxton [P]	Henry U. Branden- stein	A. B. Maguire [A]	A. Comte, Jr.	John Connor	Peter J. Curtis	A. Arnold D'Ancona	L.J. Dwyer [G]	M.J. Fontana	Richard M. Hotaling	Thomas Jennings	William N. McCarthy	Charles Wesley Reed	George R. Sanderson	John E.A. Helms [C]	Joseph S. Tobin	Victor D. Duboce [D]
1901				Samuel Braunhart [B]												Henry J. Stafford [E]		Horace Wilson [E]
1902 [16] [17]									Robert J. Loughery [H]	George Alpers	Fred N. Bent	Frederick Eggers	John A. Lynch	George B. McLellan		Henry Payot	William J. Wynn [I]
1903																	Edward I. Walsh [J]
1904 [18]							Thomas F. Finn [K]		Oscar Hocks				Theodore Lunstedt		L.A. Rea		Edward R. Rock	William W. Sanderson
1905							James L. Gallagher [L]
1906 [19]	Michael W. Coffey		Daniel G. Coleman	Sam Davis	John J. Furey	Cornelius J. Harrigan		James F. Kelly	Thomas F. Lonergan	Max Mamlock	Patrick M. McGushin	Fred P. Nicholas	Andrew M. Wilson [M]	George F. Duffey [M]		Jennings J. Phillips	Edward I. Walsh
Jan–July 1907 [19] [O]													J.J. O'Neill [N]	Olaf A. Tveitmoe [N]
Aug–Dec 1907 [20] [Q]	Henry U. Brandenstein	James P. Booth [O]	Gustave Brenner	George L. Center	A. Arnold D'Ancona	Thomas Magee	Bernard Faymonville	Eusebius Joseph Molera	Charles Albert Murdock	Daniel C. Murphy	A. Comte, Jr.	Henry Payot			Lippmann Sachs [R]	Loring P. Rixford [U]	Matt Sullivan	William G. Stafford [R]
1908 [20]	Paul Bancroft		William Broderick		A.H. Giannini [T]	Oscar Hocks	Thomas Jennings	James A. Johnston					M. Hall McAllister	Ralph McLeran	A. Arnold D'Ancona [S]		Allan Pollok	George A. Connolly [S]
1909 [20]					William W. Sanderson [T]											W.E. Balcom [U]
1910 [21]		Edward L. Cutten	Cornelius Deasy	Matt Harris, Sr.	James Emmet Hayden		Timothy B. Healy	John L. Herget		John A. Kelly	John R. Knowles	Robert J. Loughery	John P. McLaughlin	Timothy P. Minehan	Charles A. Nelson	Thomas P. O'Dowd	William C. Pugh	John O. Walsh
1911 [22]													John I. Nolan [V]
Year	Board elections moved to staggered four-year terms from 1912

• ^A A.B. Maguire resigned some time before June 27, 1900, and died shortly afterwards.
• ^B Samuel Braunhart was appointed June 27, 1900 to replace A.B Maguire.
• ^C John E.A. Helms died some time before July 26, 1900, while returning from a trip to investigate the possibility of using Lake Tahoe as a water supply for the city.
• ^D Colonel Victor Donglain Duboce, a veteran of the Spanish–American War died some time before August 15, 1900.
• ^E Henry J. Stafford was appointed November 1, 1900 to replace John E.A. Helms.
• ^F Horace Wilson was appointed November 1, 1900 to replace Victor D. Duboce.
• ^G L.J. Dwyer died some time before February 8, 1902.
• ^H Robert J. Loughery was appointed February 8, 1902 to replace L.J. Dwyer.
• ^I William J. Wynn resigned after his election as U.S. Representative for California's 5th congressional district for the term beginning March 4, 1903.
• ^J Edward I. Walsh was appointed March 4, 1903 to replace W.J. Wynn.
• ^K Thomas F. Finn resigned January 1, 1905.
• ^L James L. Gallagher was appointed February 11, 1905 to replace Thomas F. Finn. On June 17, 1907, Gallagher was appointed acting mayor by the board of supervisors, to serve in place of Eugene E. Schmitz, who had been arrested on felony charges of extortion. Schmitz protested his removal, but Gallagher continued to serve until the board elected Charles Boxton to fill Schmitz's unexpired term on July 9, 1907.
• ^M A.M. Wilson and G.F. Duffey resigned their positions prior to January 17, 1907; Wilson took up the position of state railroad commissioner; Duffey became director of the city's department of public works. ^[23]
• ^N J.J. O'Neill and O.A. Tveitmoe were appointed by Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz on January 17, 1907, to succeed A.M. Wilson and G.F. Duffey, who had resigned.
• ^O On March 18, 1907, as part of the San Francisco graft trials, 16 of the 18 supervisors confessed before a grand jury to receiving money from corrupt political boss Abe Ruef. In exchange for their testimony, "they were promised complete immunity and would not be forced to resign their offices."
• ^P Following the conviction of Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz for extortion, the board declared the office of the mayor vacant on July 9, 1907. Charles Boxton resigned his position as supervisor the same day and was elected by the board to fill Schmitz's unexpired term. However, testimony in Schmitz's corruption trial soon revealed that Boxton had taken bribes, so he actually served only seven days as mayor, resigning on July 16, 1907, to be replaced by Edward R. Taylor, dean of Hastings College of the Law. On July 29, 1907, Taylor appointed James P. Booth, who had served as a supervisor from 1900 to 1905, to serve Boxton's unexpired term as supervisor.
• ^Q On July 29, 1907, two weeks after Edward R. Taylor's appointment as mayor, he conducted a wholesale purge of supervisors connected with the graft scandal. Taylor obtained the resignations of 14 supervisors and appointed replacements for all their seats plus the open seat created by the resignation of Charles Boxton. These 15 appointments were protested by supervisors O.A. Tveitmoe and J.J. O'Neill, who had not resigned, on the grounds that Taylor's claim to the mayor's office had not been legally established. On August 26, 1907, P.M. McGushin resigned and Taylor replaced him with former supervisor A. Comte, Jr.
• ^R Lippmann Sachs and W.G. Stafford were both elected in November 1907 to continue as supervisors. However, both resigned before May 28, 1908.
• ^S George A. Connolly and A.A. D'Ancona were appointed as supervisors on May 28, 1908, to replace W.G. Stafford and Lippmann Sachs, respectively.
• ^T William W. Sanderson was appointed June 1, 1909 to replace A.H. Giannini, who had resigned. Attilio Henry Giannini was the brother of A.P. Giannini, founder of the Bank of America. W.W. Sanderson was a grocery executive with Hooper & Jennings. He served as a supervisor during the period of Abe Ruef's corruption, and gave evidence about the graft schemes.
• ^U W.E. Balcom was appointed June 7, 1909 to replace L.P. Rixford, who had resigned.
• ^V John I. Nolan was appointed March 6, 1911 to replace John P. McLaughlin, who had resigned.

18 members elected at-large, serving staggered four-year terms (1912–1931)

From January 8, 1912, the term of office of San Francisco supervisors was extended to four years, with nine members elected every two years. The nine supervisors with the highest vote counts at the 1911 election received four-year terms, and the other nine received two-year initial terms putting them up for re-election in 1913. ^[14]

Year	Initial term 1912–1915									Initial term 1912–1913
1912 [24]	Paul Bancroft [A]	George E. Gallagher [C]	James Emmet Hayden [A]	Oscar Hocks [A]	Thomas Jennings	William H. McCarthy	Charles Albert Murdock [A]	Henry Payot	Alexander T. Vogelsang	Guido E. Caglieri	Andrew J. Gallagher	J.B. Bocarde, A.H. Giannini [B]	Fred L. Hilmer	Adolf Koshland	Byron Mauzy	Ralph McLeran	Daniel C. Murphy	Edward L. Nolan
1913 [25]
1914 [26]		John C. Kortick [C]								Cornelius J. Deasy		Charles A. Nelson		James E. Power	Fred Suhr, Jr.		John O. Walsh
1915 [27]
1916 [28]	Edward J. Brandon				John D. Hynes	Joseph F. Lahaney	Joseph Mulvihill	Richard J. Welch	Edward I. Wolfe [D]
1917 [29]
1918 [30] [E]																	James B. McSheehy	Eugene Schmitz
1919
1920 [31]	Edwin G. Bath	Charles J. Powers		William S. Scott		Warren Shannon
1921
1922 [32]									Jesse C. Colman [D]		Frank H. Harris	John A. McGregor	Margaret Mary Morgan [F]	Frank Robb	Angelo Joseph Rossi
1923
1924 [33]		John Badaracco		William H. Harrelson	Philip C. Katz		Alfred Roncovieri
1925
1926 [34]											Franck R. Havenner	Milo F. Kent	Milton Marks, Sr. [G]	Charles J. Powers	Walter J. Schmidt	William P. Stanton		Charles F. Todd
1927
1928 [35]	Andrew J. Gallagher			Fred Suhr, Jr.	Joseph M. Toner [H]			Frank J. McGovern
1929
1930 [36]										Victor J. Canepa		Carl W. Miles	Jefferson E. Peyser	James E. Power	Angelo Joseph Rossi [H]			E.J. "Jack" Spaulding
1931					Samuel T. Breyer [H] [I]										Thomas P. Garrity [H]
Year	Board reduced from 18 members to 15 for the period 1932–1933

• ^A Four members elected to four-year seats in 1912 served on the previous board: Paul Bancroft, James Emmet Hayden, Oscar Hocks and Charles Albert Murdock.
• ^B A.H. Giannini was appointed January 8, 1912 to replace J.B. Bocarde who was elected in November 1911 but died before his term started.
• ^C John C. Kortick was appointed March 9, 1914 to replace George E. Gallagher who resigned January 8, 1914.
• ^D Edward I. "Eddie" Wolfe collapsed and died while speaking at a luncheon on January 26, 1922. The next day Mayor James Rolph appointed Jesse C. Colman to the vacant seat.
• ^E The November 6, 1917 election used a preferential system for the supervisor race, apparently using the Bucklin voting system. Voters cast ballots for first, second and third choices for nine supervisor positions, choosing among 49 candidates. The total votes cast were divided by the nine seats to calculate a majority threshold. Ralph McLeran got most votes and was elected based on first preference votes only; Charles Nelson was elected based on first and second preference votes; the other seven successful candidates required first, second and third preference votes.
• ^F Mary Margaret Morgan was the first woman elected as a San Francisco supervisor. She placed seventh of 22 candidates for the nine seats at stake in the November 8, 1921 election.
• ^G Milton Marks, Sr. was the father of Milton Marks, Jr. who became the state assembly member and later state senator representing San Francisco. Milton Marks, Sr. did not stand for re-election in November 1929.
• ^H A.J. Rossi was sworn in as mayor of San Francisco on January 7, 1931, to fill the vacancy left by the swearing in of James Rolph as governor of California the previous day. Rossi had been chosen for the post on January 5 by a 14–2 vote of the Board of Supervisors. At the same time Dr. Joseph M. Toner took up a position as director of institutions for California. On January 20, Rossi's appointees Samuel T. Breyer and Thomas P. Garrity were sworn in to fill the two open supervisor seats.
• ^I Samuel T. Breyer was the father of Irving Breyer, who later served as legal counsel for the San Francisco Board of Education, and the grandfather of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer.

15 members elected at-large (1932–1933)

The new city charter adopted by voters in November 1931 reduced the Board of Supervisors' membership in two stages from 18 members to 11. The first stage was that the nine members whose terms expired at the end of 1931 were replaced by six new members elected in November 1931. This reduced the board to 15 members for the period 1932–1933. Then, at the 1933 election, only five supervisors were elected, reducing the board to 11 members. The 1931 charter also removed administrative responsibility from the board and restricted it to a legislative role, and it created a new position of President of the Board of Supervisors. Previously, the mayor had served as president of the board.

Year
1932	Samuel T. Breyer	Arthur M. Brown, Jr.	Victor Canepa	Jesse Colman	Andrew J. Gallagher	Franck R. Havenner	J. Emmet Hayden	James McSheehy	Carl W. Miles	Jefferson E. Peyser	James E. Power	Warren Shannon	Alfred Roncovieri	E. Jack Spaulding	William P. Stanton
1933
Year

11 members elected at-large (1934–1977)

Year
1934	Jesse Colman	Franck R. Havenner	Andrew J. Gallagher	James McSheehy	John Ratto	Samuel T. Breyer	Arthur M. Brown, Jr.	Adolph Schmidt	Adolph Uhl	Alfred Roncovieri	Warren Shannon
1935						J. Emmet Hayden
1936			Dewey Mead			Fred W. Meyer
1937		George R. Reilly
1938
1939		John F. McGowan
1940
1941
1942		Gerald O'Gara		Chester MacPhee	Robert M. Green			Daniel Gallagher
1943		James Gartland
1944										Edward Mancuso	John J. Sullivan
1945
1946		Marvin E. Lewis			P. J. McMurray				George Christopher
1947							J. Joseph Sullivan
1948	Chris J. Christensen					Don Fazackerley
1949	James Halley
1950
1951
1952	Byron Arnold					John J. Ferdon	Harold Dobbs	Francis McCarty
1953					James Halley
1954				J. Eugene McAteer	Matthew Carberry						Clarissa McMahon
1955		William C. Blake	Charles Ertola							James Halley
1956	Joseph M. Casey				James J. Sullivan				Henry Rolph
1957
1958				Alfonso Zirpoli
1959								J. Joseph Sullivan
1960
1961				Jesse Colman	Joseph E. Tinney				Peter Tamaras
1962				Jack Morrison				Roger Boas
1963										J. Max Moore
1964							Leo T. McCarthy			George Moscone
1965			John Ertola			Terry Francois
1966											Kevin O'Shea
1967					Dorothy von Beroldingen					Josiah H. "Joe" Beeman V
1968	Robert H. Mendelsohn									James Mailliard	Ron Pelosi
1969							Robert E. Gonzales
1970		Dianne Feinstein		John Barbagelata
1971			Michael J. Driscoll
1972			John L. Molinari							Quentin L. Kopp
1973								George Chinn
1974								Alfred Nelder
1975
1976
1977	Gordon Lau				Jane Murphy
Year

11 members elected by district (1978–1980)

Year	District
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
1978	Gordon Lau	Dianne Feinstein	John L. Molinari	Ella Hill Hutch	Harvey Milk	Carol Ruth Silver	Robert E. Gonzales	Dan White	Lee S. Dolson	Quentin L. Kopp	Ron Pelosi
1979		Louise Renne			Harry Britt			Donald T. Horanzy
1980	Ed Lawson						Doris M. Ward		Nancy G. Walker		John Bardis
Year	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
	District

11 members elected at-large (1981–2000)

Year	Seat
1981	Carol Ruth Silver	Richard Hongisto	John L. Molinari	Louise Renne	Harry Britt	Ella Hill Hutch	Doris M. Ward	Wendy Nelder	Lee S. Dolson	Quentin L. Kopp	Nancy G. Walker
1982						Willie B. Kennedy
1983									Bill J. Maher
1984
1985
1986				Tom Hsieh						Jim Gonzalez
1987
1988
1989	Terence Hallinan		Angela Alioto
1990
1991		Kevin Shelley						Roberta Achtenberg			Carole Migden
1992							Annemarie Conroy
1993					Sue Bierman					Barbara Kaufman
1994								Susan Leal
1995							Mabel Teng		Tom Ammiano
1996						Leslie Katz
1997	Michael Yaki	Gavin Newsom	José Medina	Leland Yee							Amos C. Brown
1998
1999								Mark Leno
2000			Alicia Becerril
Year	Seat

11 members elected by district (2001–present)

Year	District
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
2001	Jake McGoldrick	Gavin Newsom	Aaron Peskin	Leland Yee	Matt Gonzalez	Chris Daly	Tony Hall	Mark Leno	Tom Ammiano	Sophie Maxwell	Gerardo Sandoval
2002
2003				Fiona Ma				Bevan Dufty
2004		Michela Alioto-Pier
2005					Ross Mirkarimi		Sean Elsbernd
2006
2007				Ed Jew
2008				Carmen Chu
2009	Eric Mar		David Chiu						David Campos		John Avalos
2010
2011		Mark Farrell				Jane Kim		Scott Wiener		Malia Cohen
2012					Christina Olague
2013				Katy Tang	London Breed		Norman Yee
2014
2015			Julie Christensen
2016			Aaron Peskin
2017	Sandra Lee Fewer							Jeff Sheehy	Hillary Ronen		Ahsha Safaí
2018		Catherine Stefani			Vallie Brown
2019				Gordon Mar		Matt Haney		Rafael Mandelman		Shamann Walton
2020					Dean Preston
2021	Connie Chan						Myrna Melgar
2022						Matt Dorsey
2023				Joel Engardio
2024

Timeline of supervisors since 2000

This graphical timeline depicts the composition of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors since district elections were resumed in November 2000, along with the mayor in office at each point. Each color corresponds to one of the city's 11 districts, with a paler shade indicating periods when the officeholder was appointed rather than elected.

Board members and transitions since 1980

Name	Dates	Comments
Terry A. Francois	1964–1978	Appointed 1964 by Mayor John F. Shelley to succeed Supervisor John J. Ferdon. Elected 1967, 1971, and 1975. Resigned 1978.
Robert H. Mendelsohn	1968–1977	Elected 1967, 1971, and 1975. Resigned 1977 to accept appointment by President Jimmy Carter as Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
Ronald Pelosi	1968–1980	Elected 1967, 1971, 1975, and 1977. Defeated for re-election 1979. [37]
Robert E. Gonzales	1969–1980	Appointed 1969 by Mayor Joseph Alioto to succeed Supervisor Leo T. McCarthy. Elected 1971, 1975, and 1977.
Dianne Feinstein*	1970–1978	Elected 1969, 1973, and 1977. Served as acting mayor upon the assassination of Mayor George Moscone in 1978. Elected mayor by the Board of Supervisors one week later.
Quentin L. Kopp*	1972–1986	Elected 1971, 1975, 1977, 1980, and 1984. Resigned 1986 after election to the California State Senate.
John L. Molinari*	1972–1989	Elected 1971, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1980, and 1984. Did not seek re-election in 1988.
Gordon J. Lau	1977–1980	Appointed 1977 by Mayor George Moscone to succeed Supervisor Robert H. Mendelsohn. Elected 1977. Defeated for re-election 1979.
Jane McKaskle Murphy	1977–1978	Appointed 1977 by Mayor George Moscone to succeed Supervisor Dorothy von Beroldingen.
Lee S. Dolson	1978–1980, 1981–1983	Elected 1977. Defeated for re-election 1979. Elected 1980. Defeated for re-election 1982.
Ella Hill Hutch	1978–1981	Elected 1977 and 1980. Died in office in 1981.
Harvey Milk	1978	Elected 1977. Assassinated 1978.
Carol Ruth Silver	1978–1988	Elected 1977, 1980, and 1984. Defeated for re-election 1988.
Dan White	1978	Elected 1977. Resigned 1978. Assassinated Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk.
Donald T. Horanzy	1978–1981	Appointed 1978 by Mayor Dianne Feinstein to succeed Supervisor Dan White. Defeated for first election in 1980.
Louise Renne	1978–1986	Appointed 1978 by Mayor Dianne Feinstein to succeed Feinstein on the Board of Supervisors. Elected 1980 and 1984. Resigned 1986 to accept appointment by Feinstein as city attorney.
Harry Britt*	1979–1993	Appointed 1979 by Mayor Dianne Feinstein to succeed Supervisor Harvey Milk. Elected 1980, 1984, and 1988. Did not seek re-election in 1992.
John Bardis	1980–1981	Elected 1979. Defeated for re-election 1980.
Ed Lawson	1980–1981	Elected 1979. Defeated for re-election 1980.
Nancy G. Walker*	1980–1991	Elected 1979, 1980, 1982, and 1986. Did not seek re-election in 1990.
Doris M. Ward*	1980–1992	Elected 1979, 1980, 1982, 1986, and 1990. Resigned 1992 to accept appointment by Mayor Frank Jordan as assessor.
Richard D. Hongisto	1981–1991	Elected 1980, 1982, and 1986. Did not seek re-election in 1990, running successfully for assessor.
Wendy Nelder*	1981–1991	Elected 1980, 1982, and 1986. Did not seek re-election in 1990, running unsuccessfully for assessor.
Willie B. Kennedy	1981–1996	Appointed 1981 by Mayor Dianne Feinstein to succeed Supervisor Ella Hill Hutch. Elected 1984, 1988, and 1992. Resigned 1996 to become administrative officer of the Public Transition Development Corporation.
Bill Maher	1983–1995	Elected 1982, 1986, and 1990. Ineligible to seek re-election in 1994.
Tom Hsieh	1986–1997	Appointed 1986 by Mayor Dianne Feinstein to succeed Supervisor Louise Renne. Elected 1988 and 1992. Ineligible to seek re-election in 1996.
Jim Gonzalez	1986–1993	Appointed 1986 by Mayor Dianne Feinstein to succeed Supervisor Quentin L. Kopp. Elected 1988. Defeated for re-election 1992.
Angela Alioto*	1989–1997	Elected 1988 and 1992. Ineligible to seek re-election in 1996.
Terence Hallinan	1989–1996	Elected 1988 and 1992. Resigned 1996 after election as district attorney.
Carole Migden	1991–1996	Elected 1990 and 1994. Resigned 1996 after election to the California State Assembly.
Roberta Achtenberg	1991–1993	Elected 1990. Resigned 1993 to accept appointment by President Bill Clinton as Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Kevin Shelley*	1991–1996	Elected 1990 and 1994. Resigned 1996 after election to the California State Assembly.
Annemarie Conroy	1992–1995	Appointed 1992 by Mayor Frank Jordan to succeed Supervisor Doris M. Ward. Defeated for first election in 1994.
Sue Bierman	1993–2001	Elected 1992 and 1996. Ineligible to seek re-election in 2000.
Barbara Kaufman*	1993–2001	Elected 1992 and 1996. Ineligible to seek re-election in 2000.
Susan Leal	1993–1998	Appointed 1993 by Mayor Frank Jordan to succeed Supervisor Roberta Achtenberg. Elected 1994. Resigned 1998 after election as city treasurer.
Tom Ammiano*	1995–2008	Elected 1994, 1998, 2000, and 2004. Resigned 2008 after election to the California State Assembly.
Mabel Teng	1995–2001	Elected 1994 and 1998. Defeated for re-election 2000.
Michael Yaki	1996–2001	Appointed 1996 by Mayor Willie Brown to succeed Supervisor Terence Hallinan. Elected 1996. Defeated for re-election 2000.
Amos C. Brown	1996–2001	Appointed 1996 by Mayor Willie Brown to succeed Supervisor Carole Migden. Elected 1998. Defeated for re-election 2000.
Leslie R. Katz	1996–2001	Appointed 1996 by Mayor Willie Brown to succeed Supervisor Willie B. Kennedy. Elected 1996. Did not seek re-election in 2000.
Leland Yee	1997–2002	Elected 1996 and 2000. Resigned 2002 after election to the California State Assembly.
José Medina	1997–1999	Elected 1996. Resigned 1999 to accept appointment by Governor Gray Davis as Director of the California Department of Transportation.
Gavin Newsom	1997–2004	Appointed 1997 by Mayor Willie Brown to succeed Supervisor Kevin Shelley. Elected 1998, 2000, and 2002. Resigned 2004 after election as mayor.
Mark Leno	1998–2002	Appointed 1998 by Mayor Willie Brown to succeed Supervisor Susan Leal. Elected 1998 and 2000. Resigned 2002 after election to the California State Assembly.
Alicia Becerril	1999–2001	Appointed 1999 by Mayor Willie Brown to succeed Supervisor José Medina. Defeated for first election in 2000.
Matt Gonzalez*	2001–2005	Elected 2000. Did not seek re-election in 2004.
Tony Hall	2001–2004	Elected 2000. Resigned 2004 to accept appointment as executive director of the Treasure Island Development Authority.
Sophie Maxwell	2001–2011	Elected 2000, 2002, and 2006. Ineligible to seek re-election in 2010.
Jake McGoldrick	2001–2009	Elected 2000 and 2004. Ineligible to seek re-election in 2008.
Aaron Peskin*	2001–2009, 2015–present	Elected 2000 and 2004. Ineligible to seek re-election in 2008. Elected 2015, 2016, [38] and 2020. Ineligible to seek re-election in 2024.
Chris Daly	2001–2011	Elected 2000, 2002, and 2006. Ineligible to seek re-election in 2010.
Gerardo Sandoval	2001–2009	Elected 2000 and 2004. Ineligible to seek re-election in 2008.
Bevan Dufty	2002–2011	Elected 2002 and 2006. Appointed post-election 2002 by Mayor Willie Brown to succeed Supervisor Mark Leno. Ineligible to seek re-election in 2010.
Fiona Ma	2002–2006	Elected 2002. Appointed post-election 2002 by Mayor Willie Brown to succeed Supervisor Leland Yee. Resigned 2006 after election to the California State Assembly.
Michela Alioto-Pier	2004–2011	Appointed 2004 by Mayor Gavin Newsom to succeed Newsom on the Board of Supervisors. Elected 2004 and 2006. Ruled ineligible by the San Francisco Department of Elections, citing an opinion by City Attorney Dennis Herrera, to seek re-election in 2010. Alioto-Pier filed lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court asserting that, under the term limits law, she was eligible to seek re-election in 2010, and if re-elected, would be termed out as of the 2014 election instead. A Superior Court judge ruled in her favor, [39] but the California Court of Appeal overturned that ruling, thereby removing her from the 2010 ballot for District 2 supervisor. Alioto-Pier appealed that ruling to the Supreme Court of California [40] which declined to hear the case. [41]
Sean Elsbernd	2004–2013	Appointed 2004 by Mayor Gavin Newsom to succeed Supervisor Tony Hall. Elected 2004 and 2008. Ineligible to seek re-election in 2012.
Ross Mirkarimi	2005–2012	Elected 2004 and 2008. Resigned 2012 after election as sheriff.
Ed Jew	2006–2007	Elected 2006. Appointed post-election 2006 by Mayor Gavin Newsom to succeed Supervisor Fiona Ma. Suspended by Mayor Newsom on September 25, 2007, pending the outcome of a formal process to remove him from the board. A separate civil suit was initiated by the city to remove him as well. Resigned on January 11, 2008, prior to the completion of the removal process and the civil lawsuit, and agreed not to seek public office for five years. [42]
Carmen Chu	2007–2008, 2008–2013	Appointed 2007 by Mayor Gavin Newsom to succeed Supervisor Ed Jew, after his suspension, pending final action by the Board of Supervisors on the question of whether to remove Jew from office. Jew resigned from office 2008, prior to the completion of the removal process, ending Chu's interim term. Under the charter, the seat became vacant [43] upon Jew's resignation and remained vacant for about five and a half hours until a new appointment was made. [43] Appointed 2008 by Mayor Newsom to succeed Supervisor Ed Jew, after his resignation. Elected 2008 to serve out the remainder of Jew's term, which expired January 2011. [43] [44] [45] Elected 2010. Resigned 2013 to accept appointment by Mayor Ed Lee as assessor-recorder.
David Campos	2008–2017	Elected 2008 and 2012. Appointed post-election 2008 by Mayor Gavin Newsom to succeed Supervisor Tom Ammiano. Ineligible to seek re-election in 2016.
Eric Mar	2009–2017	Elected 2008 and 2012. Ineligible to seek re-election in 2016.
John Avalos	2009–2017	Elected 2008 and 2012. Ineligible to seek re-election in 2016.
David Chiu*	2009–2014	Elected 2008 and 2012. Resigned 2014 after election to the California State Assembly.
Mark Farrell	2011–2018	Elected 2010 and 2014. Elected mayor by the Board of Supervisors in 2018, following the death of Mayor Ed Lee.
Malia Cohen*	2011–2019	Elected 2010 and 2014. Ineligible to seek re-election in 2018. Resigned 2019 after election to the State Board of Equalization. [46]
Scott Wiener	2011–2016	Elected 2010 and 2014. Resigned 2016 after election to the California State Senate
Jane Kim	2011–2019	Elected 2010 and 2014. Ineligible to seek re-election in 2018.
Christina Olague	2012–2013	Appointed 2012 by Mayor Ed Lee to succeed Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi. Defeated for first election in 2012.
Norman Yee*	2013–2021	Elected 2012 and 2016. Ineligible to seek re-election in 2020.
London Breed*	2013–2018	Elected 2012 and 2016. As board president, served as acting mayor from the death of Mayor Ed Lee in December 2017 until the board's appointment of Mark Farrell as mayor in January 2018. Resigned 2018 after election as mayor.
Katy Tang*	2013–2019	Appointed 2013 by Mayor Ed Lee to succeed Supervisor Carmen Chu. Elected 2013 and 2014. Did not seek re-election in 2018.
Julie Christensen	2015	Appointed 2015 by Mayor Ed Lee to succeed Supervisor David Chiu. Defeated for first election in 2015.
Hillary Ronen	2017–present	Elected 2016 and 2020. Ineligible to seek re-election in 2024.
Jeff Sheehy	2017–2018	Appointed 2017 by Mayor Ed Lee to succeed Supervisor Scott Wiener. Defeated for first election in June 2018.
Sandra Lee Fewer	2017–2021	Elected 2016. Did not seek re-election in 2020.
Ahsha Safaí	2017–present	Elected 2016 and 2020. Ineligible to seek re-election in 2024.
Catherine Stefani	2018–2024	Appointed 2018 by Mayor Mark Farrell to succeed Farrell on the Board of Supervisors. Elected 2018 and 2022. Resigned 2024 after election to the California State Assembly.
Rafael Mandelman	2018–present	Elected June 2018, November 2018, and 2022. Ineligible to seek re-election in 2026.
Vallie Brown	2018–2019	Appointed 2018 by Mayor London Breed to succeed Breed on the Board of Supervisors. Defeated for first election in 2019.
Gordon Mar	2019–2023	Elected 2018. Defeated for re-election 2022.
Matt Haney	2019–2022	Elected 2018. Resigned 2022 after election to the California State Assembly.
Shamann Walton*	2019–present	Elected 2018 and 2022. Ineligible to seek re-election in 2026.
Dean Preston	2019–present	Elected 2019 and 2020.
Connie Chan	2021–present	Elected 2020.
Myrna Melgar	2021–present	Elected 2020.
Matt Dorsey	2022–present	Appointed 2022 to succeed Supervisor Matt Haney. Elected 2022.
Joel Engardio	2023–present	Elected 2022.

Current members shaded in yellow. Members who served as president of the Board of Supervisors during part of their tenure on the board are denoted with an asterisk (*).

Nonpartisanship

Supervisors are elected on non-partisan ballots, but all current members of the Board of Supervisors are registered Democrats. Supervisor Jane Kim was previously a member of the Green Party, but switched her registration to Democratic before running for supervisor. ^[47]

References

1. SF Charter 1996 §3.100.
2. SF Charter 1996 §15.105.
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Sources

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• Green, Emily (January 5, 2017). "AIDS activist Sheehy to succeed Wiener as SF supervisor". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
• Hichborn, Franklin (1915), "The System" as Uncovered by the San Francisco Graft Prosecution, San Francisco: James H. Barry Company

External links

• San Francisco Board of Supervisors official website
• Past members of the Board of Supervisors