Michela Alioto-Pier
| Michela Alioto-Pier | |
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| Member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from District 2 |
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In office January 8, 2004 – January 8, 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Gavin Newsom |
| Succeeded by | Mark Farrell |
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| Born |
April 29, 1968 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | United States |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Tom Pier |
| Children | Nicholas, Giovanna, and Valentina |
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San Francisco, California St. Helena, California |
| Alma mater | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Occupation | Public servant |
Michela Alioto-Pier (born 1968) served as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (2004–11). She represented District 2, encompassing the Marina and Pacific Heights neighborhoods. She previously served as a member of the San Francisco Port Commission. She was appointed to the Board of Supervisors by Gavin Newsom after he was elected Mayor, in 2003. Newsom himself was initially appointed to this seat by former Mayor Willie Brown.
Alioto-Pier is the granddaughter of former San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto and former San Francisco Port Commissioner and former San Francisco Supervisor Michael J. Driscoll, Sr., and the niece of Angela Alioto, former President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. She is the most recent member of the Alioto family to hold an elected political office in San Francisco.
Alioto was born in San Francisco. She is the eldest of four children; she has two younger brothers and a sister. She was raised in the Catholic Church and played the harp as a child. In 1981, at age thirteen, she was paralyzed from the waist down when she fell from a ski-lift in the Lake Tahoe area. Alioto-Pier later received a degree in anthropology from UCLA.
She is married to attorney Thomas Pier and has three children. She uses a self-powered wheelchair and drives a Jeep equipped with a hand brake and accelerator.
After working as an aide to Vice President Al Gore, Alioto-Pier made her first run for public office at 28 in 1996 against Republican Congressman Frank Riggs in California's 1st congressional district, which included Napa, Mendocino, and Humboldt counties, stretching along the coast up to the Oregon border. She won the Democratic nomination, but lost the general election. She is credited with mounting a strong campaign despite the loss. At the time, she ran under the name Michela Alioto.
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