David Chiu Elected San Francisco Board Of Supervisors President

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First-term Supervisor David Chiu has been elected president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Chiu replaces Aaron Peskin both as president of the board and as supervisor for District 3, which is composed largely of the North Beach and Chinatown neighborhoods. Peskin had termed out and has since been elected chair of the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee.

Chui is the first Chinese-American to lead the board and a close ally of former board President Aaron Peskin. Chiu is an attorney who used to work in the district attorney’s office. The new board is comprised of three Chinese Americans, including a woman; two gay men, including a Latino who arrived in the United States as an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala; another Latino; an African American woman; a disabled woman; a Persian man, and two straight, white men. How’s that for diversity?

Chiu’s Wikipedia entry

Chiu’s page on the City and County of San Francisco Web site

Former colleague Marisa Lagos’ article on Chiu’s election as board president

Chiu’s campaign Web site