Matthew Edward Gonzalez is an American politician,lawyer,and activist. He served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from 2001 to 2005 and was president of the Board. In 2003,Gonzalez,running as a member of the Green Party,lost a race for mayor of San Francisco to Democrat Gavin Newsom. In the 2008 presidential election,Gonzalez ran for vice president as the running mate of candidate Ralph Nader. As of February 2024,he works as the Chief Attorney at the San Francisco Public Defender's Office.
Christopher Edward Daly is a former San Francisco Board of Supervisors member He represented District 6,serving from 2001 to 2011. He now lives in Fairfield,California,but commutes to Las Vegas,Nevada and Carson City,Nevada,where he works for the Nevada State Education Association.
Tom Ammiano is an American politician and LGBT rights activist from San Francisco,California. Ammiano,a member of the California Legislative LGBT Caucus,served as a member of the California State Assembly from 2008 to November 30,2014. He had previously been a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and had mounted an unsuccessful bid for mayor of San Francisco in 1999. He was succeeded as California's Assemblyman for District 17 by San Francisco Board of Supervisors President David Chiu on December 1,2014.
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.
Proposition H was a local ordinance on the November 8,2005 ballot in San Francisco,California,which gained national attention for its banning of most firearms within the city. The measure passed with a yes vote of 123,033 to a no vote of 89,856. The proposition was later struck down in court.
The San Francisco Sheriff's Office (SFSO),officially the City and County of San Francisco Sheriff's Office,is the sheriff's office for the City and County of San Francisco. The current sheriff is Paul Miyamoto. The department has 850 deputized personnel and support staff. The SFSO is a separate organization from the San Francisco Police Department. However,SFSO deputies and SFPD officers have all attended a POST-mandated police academy,and are duly sworn California peace officers.
Eric Lee Mar is an American politician. He served on the San Francisco Board of Education and San Francisco County Democratic Central Committee. In 2008,he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He represented District 1.
Jane Jungyon Kim is an American attorney and politician,and the first Korean American elected official in San Francisco. She represented San Francisco's District 6 on the Board of Supervisors between 2011 and 2019. She is a member of the San Francisco's Democratic County Central Committee. She is executive director of the California Working Families Party.
Edwin Mah Lee was an American politician and attorney who served as the 43rd Mayor of San Francisco from 2011 until his death in 2017.
Christina Olague is an American senior and housing rights advocate and an American politician. She served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 2012,representing District 5,which consists of Haight-Ashbury,part of Hayes Valley,the Inner Sunset,Japantown,and the Western Addition.
Vicki Hennessy was the sheriff of San Francisco and the city's first female sheriff. She was appointed interim sheriff by Mayor Ed Lee pending an ethics investigation of the elected sheriff,Ross Mirkarimi,who was charged with domestic violence battery and later agreed to a plea bargain in which he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor false imprisonment. She is not related to former San Francisco Sheriff Michael Hennessey.
The 2012 San Francisco Board of Supervisors elections occurred on November 6,2012. Six of the eleven seats of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors were contested in this election. One incumbent was termed out of office,four ran for reelection,and one ran for initial election after being appointed to the seat.
London Nicole Breed is an American politician who is the 45th mayor of San Francisco,serving since 2018. She was supervisor for District 5 and was president of the Board of Supervisors from 2015 to 2018.
On July 1,2015,32-year-old Kathryn "Kate" Steinle was shot and killed while walking with her father and a friend along Pier 14 in the Embarcadero district of San Francisco. She was hit in the back by a single bullet. The man who fired the gun,JoséInez García Zárate,said he had found it moments before,wrapped in cloth beneath a bench on which he was sitting,and that when he picked it up the weapon went off. The shot ricocheted off the concrete deck of the pier and struck the victim,who was about 90 feet (27m) away. Steinle died two hours later in a hospital as a result of her injuries.
Edmund Jew is an American former politician and businessman,who was convicted of extortion,bribery,and perjury in 2008.
Aaron Dan Peskin is an American elected official in San Francisco,California. He is a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors representing District 3. He was elected in 2015,having previously served two terms in 2001–2009.
David Sen-Fu Chiu is an American politician currently serving as the City Attorney of San Francisco. Previously,he served in the California State Assembly as a Democrat representing the 17th Assembly District,which encompasses the eastern half of San Francisco. Chiu was the Chair of the Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee,a position he held from 2016 to 2021,and the former chair of the California Asian &Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus.
A special election was held for Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco on June 5,2018,to fill the remainder of the term of Ed Lee,who had died in office on December 12,2017. Upon Lee's death,London Breed,President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors,became Acting Mayor of San Francisco,but a vote of six supervisors replaced Breed with Supervisor Mark Farrell. The mayoral election was held concurrently with the statewide direct primary election. In San Francisco,the election for the eighth district member of the board of supervisors was also on the ballot.
Shamann Walton is an American politician. He has been a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors since 2019,representing District 10,and served as President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from January 8,2021 to January 8,2023. Walton earlier served on the San Francisco Board of Education and was its president immediately prior to his election as supervisor.
Paul Miyamoto is an American sheriff. He is the 37th sheriff of San Francisco,the first East Asian American sheriff in California history and the second from the department to be elected into office.
