Candidate for
City Attorney; City of Oakland

Organizations

Oakland Tribune
Women Lawyers of Alameda County
Charles Houston Bar Association
Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area
South Asian Bar Association of Northern California
Vietnamese American Bar Association of Northern California
International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, Local 21
OakPAC (Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce)
Oakland African American Chamber of Commerce
Alameda County Democratic Party
Alameda County Democratic Lawyers Club
John George Democratic Club
East Bay Young Democrats
Black Young Democrats, East Bay
Metropolitan Greater Oakland Democratic Club
Oakland East Bay Democratic Club
East Bay Stonewall Democrats
Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club
Asian Pacific American Democratic Caucus of Alameda County
National Women's Political Caucus Alameda North
Make Oakland Better Now
Planned Parenthood Advocates Mar Monte
Black Women Organized for Political Action (BWOPA), Oakland/Berkeley Chapter
Oakland Civil Liberties Alliance

Elected and Appointed Officials

Alameda County Supervisor Keith Carson
Alameda County Board of Supervisors President (Ret.), AC Transit Authority Acting CEO (Ret.), and BART Boardmember Mary King
Alameda County Supervisor Alice Lai-Bitker (Ret.)
Alameda County Treasurer Don White
California State Board of Equalization Member Betty Yee
Former Oakland City Attorney Jayne Williams
Oakland Mayor Elihu Harris (Ret.)
Oakland City Council President Larry Reid
Oakland City Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan
Oakland City Councilmember Libby Schaaf
Oakland City Councilmember Pat Kernighan
Oakland City Councilmember Moses Mayne (Ret.)
Oakland City Councilmember Danny Wan (Ret.)
Dezie Woods-Jones, Former Oakland City Councilmember, President of BWOPA
Oakland Police Chief Anthony Batts (Ret.)
Oakland Police Chief Wayne Tucker (Ret.)
Oakland City Administrator Robert Bobb (Ret.)
Oakland City Administrator (Ret.) and Oakland Fire Chief (Ret.) P. Lamont Ewell
Oakland School Boardmember David Kakishiba
Oakland School Boardmember Christopher Dobbins
Oakland School Boardmember Harold Pendergrass (Ret.)
Oakland Parks and Recreation Commissioner Faith Du Bois
Former Oakland Port Commissioner Anthony Batarse
Former Oakland Port Comissioner John Protopappas
Oakland City Landmarks Preservation Advisory Boardmember Daniel Schulman
Former Oakland Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee Chair Jonathan Bair
Former Oakland Housing Authority Commissioner Carl Hackney
Alameda County Board of Education Member Marlon McWilson
East Bay MUD Director Doug Linney
East Bay MUD Director Frank Mellon
East Bay MUD Director William Patterson
BART Director Carol Ward Allen (Ret.)
AC Transit Director Greg Harper
Alameda County Democratic Central Committee Member Kathy Neal
Alameda County Democratic Central Committee Member Edie Irons
Alameda County Democratic Central Committee Member-Elect Andrew Kelly
Alameda County Democratic Central Committee Member-Elect Michael Barnett
Alameda Mayor Marie Gilmore
Alameda City Attorney Carol Korade (Ret.)
Alameda City Councilmember Lena Tam
Berkeley City Auditor Ann-Marie Hogan
Berkeley City Councilmember Darryl Moore
Berkeley City Councilmember Jesse Arreguin
Emeryville School Boardmember Miguel Dwin
Fremont City Attorney Harvey Levine
Ohlone Community College Boardmember Teresa Cox
San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown (Ret.)
San Francisco Democratic Central Committee Member Alix Rosenthal
Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge LaDoris Hazard Cordell (Ret.)

Legal Community Leaders

National Bar Association Past President Demetrius Shelton
California State Bar President John Streeter
Former California State Bar Executive Director Judy Johnson
California State Bar Court Presiding Judge Lise A. Pearlman (Ret.)
G. William Hunter, Former U.S. Attorney, Executive Director, NBA Players Association
Margo D. Smith, Former Assistant U.S. Attorney and Former Santa Clara County District Attorney
Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Deborah Shefler
Alameda County Bar Association President Sally Elkington
Alameda County Bar Association Past President Wayne Nishioka
Alameda County Bar Association Past President Eric Behrens
Charles Houston Bar Association President Venus Johnson
Charles Houston Bar Association and California Black Lawyers Association Past President Vernon Goins
Women Lawyers of Alameda County President Toni Mims-Cochran
Black Women Lawyers Association President Candice Petty
South Asian Bar Association Northern California President Sunil Kulkarni
Alameda County Democratic Lawyers Club Past President Ines V. Fraenkel
Anthony Allard, Bennet, Samuelsen, Reynolds & Allard

Thomas Gelini, Bennet, Samuelsen, Reynolds & Allard

Stuart C. Gilliam, Bennet, Samuelsen, Reynolds & Allard

Richard Reynolds, Bennet, Samuelsen, Reynolds & Allard
David J. Samuelsen, Bennet, Samuelsen, Reynolds & Allard
Cathy Arias, Burnham Brown

Robert Bodzin, Burnham Brown
Richard Finn, Burnham Brown

Susan Firtch, Burnham Brown

Eric Haas, Burnham Brown

Denise Quon, Burnham Brown
John Verber, Burnham Brown
Elizabeth Clark, Fitzgerald, Abbot & Beardlsey
Barry Epstein, Fitzgerald, Abbot & Beardsley
Fatima Brunson Evans, Fitzgerald, Abbot & Beardlsey
Jason Holder, Fitzgerald, Abbot & Beardlsey
Scott Jackson, Fitzgerald, Abbot & Beardsley
Anil Kripalani, Fitzgerald, Abbot & Beardsley
David Lee, Fitzgerald, Abbot & Beardlsey

Kristin Pace, Fitzgerald, Abbot & Beardlsey
Marsha Van Broek, Fitzgerald, Abbot & Beardlsey
Michael Ward, Fitzgerald, Abbot & Beardsley
Richard White, Fitzgerald, Abbot & Beardlsey
Jennifer Bell, Goldfarb Lipman, LLP
Juliet E. Cox, Goldfarb Lipman, LLP
James Diamond, Goldfarb Lipman, LLP
Heather Gould, Goldfarb Lipman, LLP
John Haywood, Goldfarb Lipman, LLP

Lynn Hutchins, Goldfarb Lipman, LLP

Margaret Jung, Goldfarb Lipman, LLP
Barbara Kautz, Goldfarb Lipman, LLP

Dianne Jackson McLean, Goldfarb Lipman, LLP
Robert C. Mills, Goldfarb Lipman, LLP
Claudia J. Gorham, Attorney, Meyers Nave
Steven Mattras, Attorney, Meyers Nave
Allison M. Dibley, Attorney, Nossaman LLP
David L. Kimport, Attorney, Nossaman LLP
Danielle Sveska Gensch, Attorney, Nossaman LLP
David Alexander, Hansen Bridgett, Former Port Attorney, Port of Oakland
Claude Ames, Law Office of Claude Ames
Clarence Baker, Attorney
Adrionne Beasley, Legal Affairs Director, West Oakland Health Center
Sue Bloch
Willie C. Bogan, Associate General Counsel, McKesson Corporation
Barbara S. Boyaut, Attorney
Roland Brandel, Morrison & Foerster
Otis Bruce, Marin County Prosecutor
Barbara Bryant, Attorney/Arbitrator/Mediator
Trina Chatterjee, Attorney, Murphy, Vu, Tongsamouth and Chaterjee
Celena Chen, Attorney
Donnell Choy, Deputy Port Attorney, Port of Oakland
Clifton Cooper, Attorney
Sharon Djemal, Attorney, East Bay Community Law Center
Vincent Ewing, AC Transit Assistant General Counsel
Roberto Manuel Fortes, Attorney, San Francisco Police Commission
Michael Foster, Foster Employment Law
Chanee Franklin, Attorney, City of Berkeley
Hayward Gilliam, Jr., Covington & Burling
Louis J. Goodman, Attorney
Paul Gordon, Gordon and Polland
Frederick L. Gross, Esq.
Randolph Hall, Boardmember, Alameda County Bar Association
Robert Harris, Civic Leader, Former Legal Counsel, PG&E
Everett A. Hewlett, Jr., Superior Court Commissioner, San Francisco (Ret.)
Joyce Hicks, Executive Director, San Francisco Police Commission, Former Chief Assistant Oakland City Attorney
Melvin Hodges, Attorney
Roger Hughes, Killpatrick, Townsend and Stockton
Tricia Hynes
Kiran Jain, Attorney, Asian Bar Association
Michelle Kenyon, Burke, Williams, Sorenson
Clinton Killian, Attorney
Curtis Kidder, Attorney
Ellen Lake, Attorney
Claudia Leed, Attorney
Diane Lewis, Lewis Law Group
Valerie Lewis, Trustee, Alameda County Medical Center and Attorney
Bill Lofton, Bond Attorney
Ray Marshall, Bingham McCutchen
William McNeill, III, Legal Aid Society Employment Law Center
Dale Minami, Civil Rights Attorney
Howard Moore, Civil Rights Attorney
Jane Bond Moore, Law Professor, Notre Dame de Namur University
Dondria Morgan, Paralegal, City of Oakland
Alex Nguyen, Former Director, Oakland Neighborhood Law Corps
Chris Noma, Partner, Wendel Rosen Black
Victor Ochoa, Attorney
Anne Omura, Attorney, Eviction Defense Center
Vivian O'Neal, Assistant Port Attorney, Port of Oakland (Ret.)
Eva Jefferson Paterson, President and Founder, Equal Justice Society
Krishna Pettitt, GCR, LLP
Robert Raich, Attorney, Medical Cannabis Issues
Alice Reid-Edwards, Attorney, PGE
Stephen Rowell, Attorney, Safeway
Peter Rukin, Attorney
Frank Russo, Attorney, Mediator
Carolyn A. Samiere, Attorney, SRI International
Michelle Sexton
Timothy Simon, Director, Public Utilities Commission and Attorney at Law
Harold Peter Smith, Partner, Dhillion and Smith
David Stein, Attorney, Donahue Gallagher
Ruben Sundeen, Attorney, Boardmember, Alameda County Bar Association
Jon Sylvester, Law Professor, Golden Gate University
Quyen Ta, Boardmember, Vietnamese American Bar Association of Northern California
Karen Tiedemann, Attorney

Sean Tierney, Hawkins Delafield
Rachel Wagner, Attorney
Barry Williams, Attorney and Business Owner

Community Leaders, Friends, and Neighbors

Michelle Abney
Valerie Ackerman
Anthony Allard
Tori Anderson, Software Analyst
Herbert Anderson, Former President, Alameda County Developmental Disabilities Council
Lee Aurich
Ken Ball, Business Developer, Tech Prose
John Bliss, Boardmember, Oakland Parks Coalition
Miriam Bloomberg
Daniel Boggan, Board President, Alameda County Medical Center
Leslie Bonnett
Mark Borsuk, Commercial Real Estate Broker
John Bouey
Robert C. Brackens, Businessman, Founding Member, 100 Black Men of the Bay Area
Kimberly Brandon, Vice President of SF Port Commission, Senior VP at Morgan Stanley
Iris Brooks
Doris Bryant
Herrington Bryce, Public Finance, Renewable Funding
Michael Buehler
Ces Butner, CEO, Horizon Beverages
Reverend Dr. Lester Cannon, Cornerstone Missionary Baptist Church
Frank Castro, Chair, Greater Rockridge Neighborhood Crime Prevention Council
Carl Chan, Unofficial "Mayor of Chinatown"
Denise Conley, Economist
Judy Cox, Former President, MGO Democratic Club
Rick Cracks
Reverend Dr. George Cummings, Imani Community Church
Charles Curry, Former President, UAW Local 2244
Fania Davis, Executive Director, Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth
Harold Davis, Former Executive Director, Oakland Housing Authority
Quinn Delaney, Philanthropist and Civil Rights Activist
Celia Docto
Arvi Dorsey, Business Owner and Community Leader
Thomas M. Downey
Laurie Kathleen Durousseau
Pamela Drake, Director, Lakeshore Business Improvement District
Derethia Duval
Damon Eaves, Director of Oakland and Alameda Children's Services, Alameda County
D. Jacquelyn Edwards
Kitty Epstein
Andrew Fremder, President, East Bay College Fund
Joel Freid
Michael Fried, Executive Director, Cantare Con Vivo
Romeo Garcia, Executive Director, ARISE High School
Shirley Gee, Executive Director, Vietnamese American Cultural Center of the East Bay
Jewelle Taylor Gibbs, Retired Professor
Zenolia Gibson
Rev. Dr. John Giles, Allen Temple Baptist Church
Joseph Greaves
Jon Gresley, Former Director, Oakland Housing Authority
Laurie Grossman
Elliot and Linda Halpern
Reverend Dr. Charley Hames Jr., Beebe Memorial Cathedral (BMC)
Donnie Harris
George Harrow
Patricia Heilbron
Jabari J. Herbert, Developer, Claremont Development
George Holland, President, Oakland NAACP
Mi-Kyung Hong
Ethel Howze
VaShone Huff, Program Director, New Organizing University
Brandren C. Hung, San Dung Restaurant
Janice Hunter
Bishop Bob Jackson, Acts Full Gospel Church
Edgar Jamelo
Corinne Jan, CEO, Family Bridges, Inc
Damyta Jones-Wilson
Wayne Jordan, Civic Leader, Real Estate Developer, Philanthropist
Sheila and James Joseph
Ken Katz
Karen Ladd
Dr. Michael Lenoir, Pediatrician and Radio Host
Rebecca Levin-Epstein, Medical Assistant, The Hand Center of San Francisco
Evelyn Levin
John Loh, Realtor, Loh Realty
Ida Lynch
Meghan Doran Macaluso, Assistant State Director, NARAL Pro-Choice CA
Fred MacKay, Oakland Workforce Investment Board
Father James V. Matthews, Pastor, St. Benedict Parish
Richard McCracken, Executive Director, Beyond Emancipation
Iris Merriouns, Chief of Staff, Oakland City Council President Larry Reid
Darrell Millner, College Professor
Dianne Millner, Former President of the Board, Disability Rights California
Steve Millner, College Professor
Cheryl Moore, Alameda County Commission on the Status of Women
Clair Moreland-Girma
Tomas Moreno-Johnson, Student
Anna Marie Moreno
Megan Morrow, Principal, Megarents
Donna Murphy, Alameda County Commission on Aging
Asia Nash
Ernestine Nettles
Shereda Nosakhare
George Ong
Ken Ott
James A. Parker, Jr. M.D.
Josephine Parker
Betty Parker
Cheryl Perry-League, 100 Black Women of East Bay
Geoffrey Pete, Oakland Businessman and Philanthropist
Bishop Frank Pinkard, Evergreen Missionary Baptist Church
Yien Phe, Broker, Vu Realty
Sandra Phillips, Vincent Academy's Head of School
Barry Pilger, Real Estate Broker
Rich Pogue
Angel Raich, Medical Cannabis and Healthcare Activist
Jim Ratliff
Sarah Richardson, President, Black Young Democrats of the East Bay
Tanya Russell
Kathleen Salem-Boyd
Carolyn Sandidge
Terry Sandoval, Women's Community Leader
Shonda Scott, Commentator and Oakland Activist
Christie Sebree
Reverend Dr. J. Alfred Smith, Sr., Allen Temple Baptist Church
J. Alfred Smith, Jr.
Reverend Dr. Joe Smith, Pastor, Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church, President, Bay Cities Baptist Ministers Union
Holden Stein
Mark Stephens
Helena Straughter, African American Democratic Caucus Member
Dorine Streeter, Real Estate Manager
Denise Stripling
Dan Sullivan, Retired Teamsters Official
Dr. Betty L. Sullivan, Founder of "Betty's List" Online LGBT Information Service and Co-Publisher/Editor of SF Bay Times
Michael Sward
Becky Taylor
Carolyn Taylor, Catco Services Lighting and Elee Supplies
Cheryl Taylor, President, Black Women Organized for Political Action (BWOPA), Oakland/Berkeley Chapter
Wayne Taylor
Anthony Thompson, Vice President, Bank of Alameda
Rev. Jacqueline A. Thompson, Allen Temple Baptist Church
Hung Tran, COO, Option Admin Inc.
Ravi Tumber
Marsha van Broek
Jennifer Viegas, Co-Publisher/Editor of SF Bay Times, Discovery News Journalist, Novelist
Donna Vu, Realtor, Lima Investment
Julie Marie Waters, Tobacco Program Manager, American Lung Association
Karen White
Carl Williams
Gwen Williams
Kimberly Winsten
Renais Winter
George W. Woods, Jr. M.D., Neuro-Psychiatrist
Page Yarwood, Past President, California Optometric Association

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