Betty Yee
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| 32nd Controller of California | |
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Assumed office January 5, 2015 |
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| Governor | Jerry Brown |
| Preceded by | John Chiang |
| Member of the California State Board of Equalization from the 1st district |
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In office December 15, 2004 – January 5, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Carole Migden |
| Succeeded by | Fiona Ma |
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October 19, 1957 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
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University of California, Berkeley (BA) Golden Gate University (MPA) |
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Yú Shūtíng | ||||||
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Yú Shūtíng |
Betty T. Yee (Chinese: ; born October 19, 1957) is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who has served as California State Controller since 2015. She previously served as a member of the California Board of Equalization from 2004 to 2015. She won the open seat for Controller in the 2014 election, with 54% of the vote.
A native of the Parkside district of San Francisco, Yee's parents emigrated from Guangdong Province, China in 1956. She handled the books in her family's neighborhood laundry and dry cleaning business while she grew up.
Originally speaking no English, she spent her grade school years in the San Francisco Unified School District before attending the University of California, Berkeley as an undergraduate, attaining a bachelor's degree in sociology. She went on to attend Golden Gate University, from which she earned a master's degree in Public Administration.
Yee worked for the Legislature and was then Governor Gray Davis's Chief Deputy Director for Budget, later saying that "My role was to present all the options possible. Politics came into play. The governor and legislative leaders made decisions that sometimes didn't agree with our recommendations." She then became the Chief Deputy to Board of Equalization member Carole Migden. She was appointed to fill the seat when Migden vacated it after being elected to the State Senate.
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