17 Facts About Gerardo Sandoval

Gerardo Compos Sandoval was born on 1962 and is a judge of the Superior Court of California in and for the County of San Francisco.

Gerardo Sandoval was formerly a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

Gerardo Sandoval was first elected to the Board of Supervisors in December 2000, and was re-elected in November 2004.

Except for his oldest brother, who is developmentally disabled, all of Gerardo Sandoval's siblings graduated from college.

Gerardo Sandoval was in the first Head Start class in 1966 and considers himself a product of Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society".

Gerardo Sandoval is fully bilingual in Spanish and has traveled extensively in Latin America, Asia and Europe.

Gerardo Sandoval is married to the former Amy Harrington, and they have two daughters.

Gerardo Sandoval attended Loyola High School in Los Angeles before graduating from the University of California, Berkeley in 1987.

Gerardo Sandoval wrote his master's thesis on using tax credits to build affordable housing.

Gerardo Sandoval received his Juris Doctor from Columbia University Law School.

Gerardo Sandoval is the first in his family to receive an advanced degree.

Gerardo Sandoval worked as an assistant to San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos from 1990 to 1992, where he was responsible for budget and finance issues.

Gerardo Sandoval worked as a trial attorney and Deputy Public Defender in the San Francisco Public Defender's Office for five years.

Gerardo Sandoval completed a three-year term on San Francisco's Public Transportation Commission, an agency with over $350 million in expenditures and 3500 employees.

At a community meeting, Gerardo Sandoval stated that the issue was not a legal one but a political one.

Gerardo Sandoval articulated an argument that San Franciscans should leave no stone unturned in trying to fight back, stating people should protest at "corporate headquarters, at the homes of CEOs, and their birthdays, weddings, bar mitzvahs or wherever" as the lawsuit would take money away from underserved segments of the population.

Gerardo Sandoval introduced a resolution "condemning the defamatory language used by talk radio host Michael Savage" after Savage criticized undocumented immigrant protesters who were fasting in support of the controversial DREAM Act, which would give qualifying undocumented immigrants a path to US citizenship as well as enable them to receive tax payer funded in-state college tuition.