Jeff Sheehy
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Jeff Sheehy | |
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Member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from District 8 | |
In office January 9, 2017 – July 11, 2018 | |
Preceded by | Scott Wiener |
Succeeded by | Rafael Mandelman |
Personal details | |
Born | 1957 or 1958 (age 66–67) University of Texas, Austin |
Profession | Politician |
Website | Board of Supervisors District 8 website |
Jeff Sheehy is a former member of the
Background
Sheehy grew up in Waco, Texas, where his grandfather John and father James were both former mayors of the city.[1]
Career
Sheehy graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1985. He was a member of San Francisco
In 1996, Sheehy was one of three people who developed the city's Equal Benefits Ordinance and successfully advocated for its adoption. The ordinance requires any company receiving a city contract to provide their employees' same-sex domestic partners the same benefits that spouses receive.[3]
Sheehy was appointed as a victim's advocate for the SF district attorney's office in 1998, serving until 2000.
He served as Mayor Gavin Newsom's HIV/AIDS advisor.[3] He was appointed as a member of the governing board of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) in 2005. In 2020, he authored an op-ed opposing CA Proposition 14, which would have provided new funding for CIRM, asserting that the measure was fatally flawed and would impose an unnecessary burden on the state's budget.[4]
Sheehy is the communications director of the
Sheehy has received several awards for his activist work: the
Following Scott Wiener's departure from the San Francisco Board of Supervisors due to his election to the California State Senate in 2016, Sheehy was appointed to fill out the remainder of his term by San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee. Sheehy was the only HIV-positive member of the Board.
Notes
- ^ a b Bay Area Reporter.
- ^ a b Green 2017.
- ^ a b c d e CIRM 2015.
- ^ "Jeff Sheehy: Why Prop. 14 is unaffordable, unnecessary, fatally flawed and unsupportable". 16 September 2020.
Sources
- Sheehy, Jeff (September 15, 2020). "Commentary: Why Prop. 14 is unaffordable, unnecessary, fatally flawed and unsupportable". San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
- Green, Emily (January 5, 2017). "AIDS activist Sheehy to succeed Wiener as SF supervisor". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
- "Jeff Sheehy". California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. 2015. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
- "Politics a family pursuit for D8 Supe Sheehy". Bay Area Reporter. January 12, 2017. Retrieved January 16, 2017.