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Leland Yee's Biography

Contact Information

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Full Name:

Leland Yee

Gender:

Male

Family:

Wife: Maxine; 4 Children

Birth Place:

China

Home City:

San Francisco, CA

PhD, Child Psychology, University of Hawaii, 1975

MA, San Francisco State University, 1972

BA, University of California, Berkeley, 1970

Former Speaker Pro Tempore, California State Assembly

Former Assistant President Pro Tempore, California State Senate

Candidate, California Secretary of State, 2014

Senator, California State Senate, 2007-2010

Assembly Member, California State Assembly, 2003-2006

Supervisor, San Francisco Board of Supervisors, 1996-2002

Member/President, San Francisco School Board, 1988-1996

Former Member, Governance and Finance Committee, California State Senate

Former Member, Governmental Organization Committee, California State Senate

Former Member, Labor and Industrial Relations Committee, California State Senate

Member, National Asian Pacific American Caucus of State Legislators

Former President, National Asian Pacific American Caucus of State Legislators

Experience, Asian Americans for Community Involvement

Child Therapist, City's Children's Division of the Mental Health Department

Child Psychologist, Oakland School District

No organizational membership information on file.

Awards:

For his legislative and community efforts, Senator Yee has also been honored with dozens of awards from such organizations as the National Education Association, California Newspaper Publishers Association, San Francisco Collaborative Against Human Trafficking, Equality California, Coalition for San Francisco Neighborhoods, California Women for Agriculture, California Animal Association, A. Philip Randolph Institute, First Amendment Coalition, and Environment California. In addition, Californians Aware dubbed Yee "Senator Sunshine" for his open government work and the California Labor Federation named him a "Labor Warrior" for protecting working families.

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