Jaqueline P. Minor

Appointed August 5, 2019 by Mayor London N. Breed

Jacqueline is an accomplished lawyer. She retired as General Counsel for the Oakland School District in 2017, after 8 years of providing high quality legal advice and representation to the school district, senior management and elected school board. She was instrumental in supporting the development of major policy initiatives such as:

• The Voluntary Resolution Plan to end disproportionate suspensions of African American male students
• Successful resolution of litigation resulting from District police officer involved shooting
• Extensive day to day operational support to Fiscal, Human Resources, Facilities departments and the capital bond program
• Negotiation of agreements with charter schools resulting in capital improvements to District owned schools
• Representation of the District in litigation of statewide significance

Previously, she served as the Deputy City Attorney with the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office and as the Deputy City Attorney assigned to the San Francisco Unified School District. She also advised the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission on complex energy and environmental matters, which included representing the City in regulatory cases before the California Energy Commission and the California Public Utilities Commission. In addition, she represented the City in regulatory and civil litigation involving PG&E and advised the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force and the Human Rights Commission on municipal and policy issues.

Her professional experiences include Associate at Arnold & Porter Law Firm in Washington, DC and Assistant Vice President for business conduct standards (Ethics Officer), senior counsel and staff attorney for Pacific Bell Company in Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco, CA. She was selected to participate in Leadership America and to attend the Stanford University Graduate School of Business Executive Program. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Cedar Crest College in Allentown, PA and Georgetown University Law School. She is admitted to the bars in California, the District of Columbia and Virginia.

Jacqueline served as PTA President and sponsored a trip to Cuba for 25 San Francisco high school students. She and her family live in District 7. She is the proud grandmother of Riley who attends a Mandarin immersion preschool program in San Francisco.

"I am confident that Ms. Minor will serve our community well," said London N. Breed, Mayor, City and County of San Francisco.