27 Facts About Brooke Jenkins

On July 8,2022, Jenkins was appointed interim district attorney by Mayor London Breed following the successful recall of Chesa Boudin, for which she actively campaigned and was found to have improperly accessed and shared sensitive information.

Brooke Jenkins has been found to have committed two acts of prosecutorial misconduct, and in April 2025, the State Bar of California placed her in a mandatory diversion program after numerous ethics complaints were filed against her.

Brooke Jenkins was raised by her mother because shortly after her birth, her father had to leave the country due to his student visa status.

Brooke Jenkins received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago Law School.

Brooke Jenkins was admitted to the California State Bar in 2011.

Brooke Jenkins worked in the San Francisco District Attorney's Office for seven years from 2014 to mid-2021, where she started as an attorney handling misdemeanor cases and later served as a hate crimes prosecutor.

Brooke Jenkins completed one homicide trial, during which she was later found to have committed prosecutorial misconduct.

Brooke Jenkins resigned from her role as assistant district attorney in October 2021.

Brooke Jenkins was paid nearly $175,000 by three non-profits over the six months she was not employed by the city; $153,000 from the 501 Neighbors for a Better San Francisco, and $10,000 each from Sister's Circle Women Support Network and GlobalSF which hold the same non-profit status.

Mayor London Breed announced on July 7,2022, the appointment of Brooke Jenkins to serve in the interim until an election is held on November 8,2022, to elect a District Attorney to serve the rest of Boudin's term through 2023.

Between her appointment and August 2022, Brooke Jenkins instituted policies such as allowing her attorneys to seek gang enhancements, allowing the conditional prosecution of minors as adults, and making drug dealers ineligible for community courts.

Brooke Jenkins supported Proposition E in 2022, which aimed to expand the use of police surveillance through the use of live cameras.

Brooke Jenkins ran in the November 2022 special election to serve the remainder of Boudin's term through 2023.

On October 13,2022, retired Superior Court Judge Martha Goldin filed a State Bar complaint against Brooke Jenkins, outlining multiple misconduct allegations.

Brooke Jenkins was paid a six-figure consulting fee by the nonprofit Neighbors for a Better San Francisco, which shares a name and an office with the Chesa Boudin recall campaign.

Brooke Jenkins had not previously disclosed these payments was registered as a volunteer.

In October 2022, an anonymous complaint was filed with San Francisco's Ethics Commission and the California Fair Political Practices Commission accusing Brooke Jenkins of failing to register as a campaign consultant.

The complaint alleged that the $153,000 salary Brooke Jenkins received from the nonprofit was intended for partisan purposes.

Brooke Jenkins ran again for district attorney in the 2024 election and won election to a full term in office.

In 2016, the California Court of Appeal overturned a conviction after finding that Brooke Jenkins committed prosecutorial misconduct by improperly commenting on a defendant's exercise of his right to remain silent and thereby interfering with a defendant's constitutional rights.

In October 2022, Mission Local reporter Joe Eskenazi revealed that just before leaving the District Attorney's Office, Brooke Jenkins had sent sensitive files, including a rap sheet, from the District Attorney's office to Assistant District Attorney Don DuBain's personal email.

Brooke Jenkins went on to use the un-redacted files in her work for the campaign to recall District Attorney Chesa Boudin.

Brooke Jenkins claimed that she accidentally sent the email to DuBain's personal email.

The letter said that regarding the "allegation that Brooke Jenkins coached a witness in a molestation trial," the state bar found no evidence.

In 2022, Brooke Jenkins hired her longtime friend, and high school track and field teammate, and classmate, Monifa Willis as Chief of the Victim Services Division, after Brooke Jenkins demoted the former Chief of Victim Services Division, Kasie Lee.

Brooke Jenkins is the first person to ever hold the position who is not not a licensed attorney.

Brooke Jenkins did not disclose their relationship prior to the hiring decision, in violation of city ethics rules, which state that close relationships must be disclosed.