Ken Yeager
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| Member of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors from the 4th district |
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Assumed office 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Jim Beall |
| Member of the San Jose City Council from the 6th district |
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In office 2000–2006 |
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| Succeeded by | Pierluigi Oliverio |
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| Born | December 12, 1952 |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Domestic partner | Michael Haberecht |
| Residence | San Jose, California |
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San Jose State University Stanford University |
Ken Yeager (born December 12, 1952) is an American politician serving on the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, representing District 4. First elected to the board in 2006, he represents the cities of Campbell and Santa Clara, as well as west San Jose and the Burbank and Cambrian neighborhoods. Previously, Yeager had served on San Jose City Council from 2000 to 2006. Before that, he'd served two terms on the San Jose/Evergreen Community College Board. He was a candidate for the 23rd district seat in the California State Assembly in 1996, coming in second.
Ken Yeager was born December 12, 1952. His parents were Ernest Eugene "Gene" Yeager (1924–2010) and Carolyn French Yeager (d. 2003). Yeager attended San José State University (SJSU), where he earned a B.A. in political science. He went on to Stanford University, earning an M.A. in sociology, and a Ph.D. in education from the Stanford Graduate School of Education. Yeager completed the Senior Executives in State and Local Government Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Prior to his career in politics, he taught political science at San Jose State University (SJSU) for 12 years full time.
In 1984, Yeager was a cofounder of the Bay Area Municipal Elections Committee, described as a "four-county lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender political action group." He came out publicly in a 1984 San Jose Mercury News opinion piece in response to the anti-gay rhetoric of a local state senator. In 1992 he became the first openly gay elected official in Santa Clara County, when he waas named as trustee of teh San Jose-Evergreen Community College District. From 1992 until 2000, he served two terms in the role.
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