Emeritus Advisory Board

*Leo T. McCarthy - Former California Lieutenant Governor of California; Founder, Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good (1930-2007)

Art Agnos - Mayor of San Francisco (1988 -1992), former Regional Head, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

Nancy Barrett - Senior Vice President, U.S. Trust Bank of America

Jude Barry - CEO, Catapult Strategies, Verafirma

Joseph W. Cotchett - Attorney, Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy

Honorable Joan Buchanan – Former Member, California State Assembly

Sheila Burke - Strategic advisor, Baker Donelson; former Undersecretary for the Smithsonian Institute

Honorable Betsy Butler – Former Member, California State Assembly

Mary Ruth Carleton - Vice President, University Relations, San Diego State University

Sandy Chau - Director, Accela, Inc.

Corey Cook - Vice Provost, St. Mary's College of California; former Director of the Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good

Frank Damrell - U.S. District Court Judge (ret.)

Sheryl Davis - Executive Director, San Francisco Human Rights Commission

*Honorable John Foran - Former Member, California State Senate (1930-2014)

Holly Hogan - Associate General Counsel, Automattic/WordPress.com

Loretta Holstein - Community leader, Robert and Loretta Holstein Scholarship Fund, University of San Francisco

Eric Jaye - Founder and President, Storefront Political Media

*Ralph Lane - Founder/Chair, Sociology Department, University of San Francisco (1923- 2005)

Emily Lo Savio - Executive Director, Opportunity Impact

Antoinette M. Malveaux - Director, Casey Family Programs

Susan Marineau - Co- founder, Marineau Family Foundation

Craig Montuori - Founder and Executive Director, PolitiHacks

Patrick Murphy - Fellow, Opportunity Institute; former Director of the Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good

Justice William Newsom - California State Appeals Court Justice (ret.); Financial Advisor, Getty family trust

Vicky Nguyen - Investigative & Consumer Correspondent, NBC Bay Area News, Valedictorian, Class of 2000, University of San Francisco

Stephen Pearce - Rabbi Emeritus, Congregation Emanu-El

Mary Rosenblatt Powell - Former Chief Development Officer, San Francisco Opera

Rev. Stephen Privett, S.J. - Chancellor and Former President, University of San Francisco; Co-founder, McCarthy Center

Shari Roeseler - Executive Director, Society for the Blind

Ronald Rose - Principal, LoopLender Inc.

Jaime Rossi - Partner, Storefront Political Media

Catarina Schwab - Vice President, buildOn

Don Sebastiani -Founder, Don Sebastiani & Sons; former Member, California State Assembly

Rhonda Smira- Sloat Higgins Jensen and Associates

*Jack Smith - Former Mayor of Hayward, California (1927-2008)

Richard Spohn - Lawyer, Nossaman LLP (ret); Founding Director, Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good

*Kevin Starr - Historian; University Professor of History, University of Southern California; former California State Librarian (1940-2017)

Dominique Tan - Director of Business Intelligence & Budgets, Unical Aviation, Inc.

Joe Trippi - Founder, Trippi and Associates

Suzanne Troxel - CEO, Pivot Point Capital

Jennifer Turpin - USF Professor of Sociology; former Provost and Academic Vice President, University of San Francisco; former Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences

Joe Cotchett - Attorney, Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy