29th District Attorney of San Francisco (2020–2022, recalled)
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Chesa Boudin
29th District Attorney of San Francisco
In office January 8, 2020 – July 8, 2022
Preceded by
George Gascón Suzy Loftus (interim)
Succeeded by
Brooke Jenkins
Personal details
Born
(1980-08-21) August 21, 1980 (age 43) New York City, U.S.
Political party
Democratic
Spouse
Valerie Block
Parents
David Gilbert (father)
Kathy Boudin (mother)
Relatives
Bill Ayers (adoptive father)
Bernardine Dohrn (adoptive mother)
Louis B. Boudin (great-great-grand-uncle)
Leonard Boudin (grandfather)
Michael Boudin (uncle)
Education
Yale University (BA, JD) St Antony's College, Oxford (MSc)
Website
Campaign website
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Chesa Boudin (/ˈtʃeɪsəbuːˈdiːn/, CHAY-sə boo-DEEN;[4] born August 21, 1980) is an American lawyer who served as the 29th District Attorney of San Francisco from January 8, 2020, to July 8, 2022. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Boudin graduated from Yale University and was a Rhodes Scholar at St Antony's College, Oxford. After obtaining his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 2011, Boudin served as a law clerk to M. Margaret McKeown on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He went on to work at the San Francisco Public Defender's Office as a post-doctoral fellow in 2012. Boudin clerked for Charles Breyer on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California from 2013 and 2014 before returning to San Francisco as a deputy public defender.
Elected as San Francisco district attorney in 2019, Boudin implemented some criminal justice reform policies to reduce incarceration, including bail reform and alternatives to prosecution and sentencing. However, he was heavily criticized for mismanagement of the office and for his perceived softness on crime, and was the subject of a recall election on June 7, 2022; 55% of voters chose to remove him from office.[5][6] Brooke Jenkins, who was a leading figure and critic of Boudin in the recall election, was chosen by Mayor London Breed to succeed him as interim District Attorney.[7] She would go on to win a special election to complete Boudin's unexpired term.[8] Boudin is the first district attorney in San Francisco to be recalled, and the first district attorney in the state of California to be successfully removed from office.
^Feinstein, Jessica (September 18, 2003). "Boudin '03 greets mother after 22 years". Yale Daily News. Retrieved May 7, 2020.
^"Former Liman Fellow Chesa Boudin '11 Sworn in as District Attorney of San Francisco". Yale Law School. January 8, 2020. Retrieved May 7, 2020.
^"News & Media". Refugee Studies Centre. November 12, 2019. Retrieved May 7, 2020. We would like to congratulate RSC alum Chesa Boudin (MSc in Forced Migration 2003–2004)
^Chesa Boudin – Candidate for District Attorney. October 11, 2019. Retrieved November 11, 2019.
^Goldmacher, Shane (June 8, 2022). "Progressive Backlash in California Fuels Democratic Debate over Crime". The New York Times.
^"June 7, 2022 Election Results – Summary". City and County of San Francisco – Department of Elections. Retrieved June 8, 2022.
^Nova, Karina; Hassan, Anser (July 8, 2022). "Brooke Jenkins sworn in as SF's new district attorney". ABC7 San Francisco. Retrieved July 8, 2022.
^Hao, Claire (November 14, 2022). "It's official: Brooke Jenkins will stay on as San Francisco district attorney". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved December 6, 2022.
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