Susan Belinda Christian, J.D.

Commissioner Christian is an Assistant District Attorney in San Francisco, and is the office’s Managing Attorney for the Collaborative Courts and Mental Health Unit. From 2012 through 2019, she was assigned to the Behavioral Health Court—a collaborative, multidisciplinary court providing treatment and rehabilitation for people whose criminal justice involvement is tied to behavioral health disorders. In 2012, she was appointed to the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, where she served four terms as Commission Chair and worked with the Mayor’s Office to create and implement a pilot program for Implicit Bias trainings for City employees. Commissioner Christian is a member of the ZSFG Joint Conference Committee and the Community & Public Health Committee.  She was appointed to the Health Commission in 2020.