Tom Ammiano
| Tom Ammiano | |
|---|---|
Tom Ammiano on Harvey Milk's 77th birthday
|
|
| Member of the California State Assembly from the 17th district 13th district (2008–2012) |
|
|
In office December 1, 2008 – November 30, 2014 |
|
| Preceded by | Mark Leno |
| Succeeded by | David Chiu |
| Member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from District 9 |
|
|
In office 1994–2008 |
|
| Preceded by | district created in 2000; prior terms were on city-wide seat |
| Succeeded by | David Campos |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
December 15, 1941 Montclair, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Nationality | United States |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Domestic partner | Tim Curbo (deceased) |
| Children | 1 |
| Residence | San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater |
Seton Hall University San Francisco State University |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Teacher, activist |
Tom Ammiano (born December 15, 1941) is an American politician and LGBT rights activist from San Francisco, California. Ammiano, a member of the California Legislative LGBT Caucus, served as a member of the California State Assembly from 2008 to November 30, 2014. He had previously been a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and had mounted an unsuccessful bid for mayor of San Francisco in 1999. He was succeeded as California's Assemblyman for District 17 by San Francisco Board of Supervisors President David Chiu on December 1, 2014.
Ammiano grew up in Montclair, New Jersey, part of a working-class family of Italian Americans. He attended Immaculate Conception High School.
Ammiano attended Seton Hall University, earning a bachelor's degree in communication in 1963. He moved to San Francisco in 1963, and earned a master's degree in special education from San Francisco State University in 1965. Ammiano was opposed to the Vietnam War and from 1966 to 1968 was an English teacher in a small town in South Vietnam, serving with a Quaker development group.
After returning to San Francisco, Ammiano was a special-education teacher at Buena Vista Elementary School in the Mission. In 1975, he was one of the founders of a gay teachers' organization which successfully pushed the school board to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation. Ammiano also came out publicly as a gay man in a news conference that year, and became one of the first public-school teachers in San Francisco to do so.
...
Wikipedia