Ed Lee (politician)
| Ed Lee | |
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| 43rd Mayor of San Francisco | |
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Assumed office January 11, 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Gavin Newsom |
| City Administrator of San Francisco | |
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In office June 22, 2005 – January 11, 2011 |
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| Mayor | Gavin Newsom |
| Succeeded by | Naomi M. Kelly |
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Edwin Mah Lee May 5, 1952 Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Anita Lee (m. 1980) |
| Children | Brianna Lee Tania Lee |
| Residence | San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater |
Bowdoin College UC Berkeley School of Law |
| Profession | Attorney, Mayor |
| Website | www |
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| Traditional Chinese | 李孟賢 | ||||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 李孟贤 | ||||||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Lǐ Mèngxián |
| IPA | [lì mə̂ŋɕjɛ̌n] |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Léih Máahngyìhn |
| Jyutping | lei5 maang5 jin4 |
Edwin Mah "Ed" Lee (Chinese: 李孟賢, born May 5, 1952) is an American politician and attorney who is the 43rd and current Mayor of San Francisco, California. He was appointed by the Board of Supervisors on January 11, 2011 to serve out the remainder of former mayor Gavin Newsom's term, after Newsom resigned to take office as Lieutenant Governor of California. Lee won the election on November 8, 2011 to serve a full term as Mayor. He was re-elected in 2015.
Lee is the first Asian American mayor in San Francisco's history. Before being appointed mayor, he was City Administrator.
Prior to his employment with the City and County of San Francisco, Mayor Lee was the Managing Attorney for the San Francisco Asian Law Caucus, for which he worked from 1979 to 1989. From 1989 to 1991, Lee worked as a Whistleblower Ordinance Investigator and the Deputy Director of Employment Relations in San Francisco. Lee later worked as the director of the Human Rights Commission from 1991 to 1996. Afterwards, Lee became director of the City Purchasing Department in 1996 until his appointment to City Administrator in 2000.
After completing law school and receiving his J.D. degree, Lee worked as Managing Attorney for the San Francisco Asian Law Caucus where he was an advocate for affordable housing and the rights of immigrants and renters. In 1989, Lee was appointed by Mayor Art Agnos as the City's first investigator under the city's Whistleblower Ordinance. Agnos later appointed him deputy director of human relations. In 1991, he was hired as executive director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, serving in that capacity under Mayors Agnos, Frank Jordan, and Willie Brown. Brown appointed him Director of City Purchasing, where, among other responsibilities, he ran the City's first Minority/Women-Owned Business Enterprise program.
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