Sean Elsbernd (born February 7, 1976) is an American politician who represented
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on the
San Francisco Board of Supervisors
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. District 7 includes neighborhoods west of
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, the Villas at Parkmerced,
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, Miraloma Park, Harding Park Golf Course,
San Francisco State University
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,
City College of San Francisco
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, and
Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center
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Early life
Elsbernd received his BA from
Claremont McKenna College
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in 1997 and graduated from
University of California Hastings College of the Law in 2000. He was subsequently admitted to the State Bar of California on December 4, 2000.
Career
Early career
Prior to his work in City Hall, Elsbernd worked as a law clerk with Nielsen, Merksamer, Parinello, Mueller, & Naylor and with the San Francisco District Attorney's Office. He also worked in the office of Congressman
Tom Lantos
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as a co-director of the
Congressional Human Rights Caucus
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in 1995.
San Francisco Supervisor
Elsbernd was elected to the Board of Supervisors in November 2004, following his August 2004 appointment to the Board by Mayor
Gavin Newsom
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.
In his final meeting on the Board, his colleagues showered him with praise. Though refereed to as a "curmudgeon" and to the right of most of his peers, "Elsbernd was renowned for his mastery of parliamentary procedure."
Dianne Feinstein
Elsbernd served as the State Director for US Senator
Dianne Feinstein
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.
Mayoral Chief of Staff
San Francisco Mayor,
London Breed
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, appointed Elsbernd as her Chief of Staff. He began his new role in the San Francisco's mayor's office in November 2018.
In his role, Elsbered was involved in question whether Breed's decision to have appointees to commission submit unsigned and undated letters of resignation as an apparent condition to their appointment was appropriate. In a hearing in October 2022, Elsbernd was questioned by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors over his knowledge of the mayor's process for determining which appointees were required to submit such letters, and who was not.
[https://sfstandard.com/politics/supervisors-grill-mayor-breeds-chief-of-staff-for-answers-on-undated-resignation-letters/]
Personal life
He married Jennifer Johnston on November 11, 2005.
References
1976 births
Claremont McKenna College alumni
Living people
San Francisco Board of Supervisors members
University of California, Hastings College of the Law alumni
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