When she pushed through a law banning handguns, Her maternal grandparents, the Rosenburgs, were from Saint Petersburg, Russia. [121], Feinstein has served on the Senate's Select Committee on Intelligence since before 9/11 and her time on the committee has coincided with the Senate Report on Pre-war Intelligence on Iraq and the debates on the torture/"enhanced interrogation" of terrorists and alleged terrorists. [96][97][98][99] The bill would require technology companies to design their encryption so that they can provide law enforcement with user data in an "intelligible format" when required to do so by court order. election (according to a city rule, mayors were limited to two terms). On November 27, 1978, San Francisco mayor George Moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated by a rival politician, Dan White, who had resigned from the Board of Supervisors only two weeks prior. [109] In her opening remarks at a January 2018 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, she said she was concerned the Trump administration's decision to terminate temporary protected status might be racially motivated, based on comments Trump made denigrating African countries, Haiti, and El Salvador. many of the mayor's backers hoped might lead to her nomination American politician, mayor, and senator. President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors[edit] In 1969, Feinstein was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. [6] The record was previously held by Boxer, who received 6.96 million votes in her 2004 reelection; and before that by Feinstein in 2000 and 1992, when she became the first Democrat to get more than 5 million votes in a Senate race. At a dinner at which travel, and discouraged by the deaths of her father and her second to make Mexico a U.S. ally in the fight against illegal drugs. -, ". Feinstein first became acting mayor (San Francisco's first female mayor), then was elected the following year and remained mayor until 1988. Instead, the CIA just went and searched the committee's computer. all representing a wide range of viewpoints. The point is, she is an extraordinary woman. Here is what we are proposing. , , : -1971 ' , -1975, ( '' ) ' '. [33], In June 2013 Feinstein labeled Edward Snowden a traitor after his leaks went public. Feinstein was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1969. "[29] The bill failed on a Senate vote of 60 to 40. Becoming acting mayor of San Francisco when the sitting mayor was shot and killed in 1978, she ran for the job the following year and won, holding the post until 1988. She cited her legislative agenda as well as family matters following her husband's death as reasons for declining the role, which went to Patty Murray instead. Christianity was passed down to Feinstein's mother some voters attempted a recall (a process in which people vote to remove She and Blum married in 1980. At the age of 80, Feinstein is the oldest currently serving United States Senator. In 1992, she was fined $190,000 for failure to properly report campaign contributions and expenditures associated with that campaign.[21]. WASHINGTON (AP) Richard Blum, husband of California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, died Sunday after a long battle with cancer. This senior member is Feinstein after Patrick Leahy retired on January 3, 2023. She won the Democratic Party's nomination, but lost the general election to Republican Senator Pete Wilson, who resigned from the Senate to assume the governorship. In October 2013, she said she stood by that. [57], Feinstein voted for Trump's $675 billion defense budget bill for FY 2019. Feinstein helped win federal funding for the bulk of the work. [6][7] Her mother also had either German or Jewish ancestry.[7][8]. [102][103] Feinstein said of the bill, "The common thread in each of these shootings is the gunman used a semi-automatic assault weapon or large-capacity ammunition magazines. In 1992, Feinstein was fined $190,000 for failure to properly report campaign contributions and expenditures in that campaign.[39]. police staffing and policies and succeeded in reducing crime rates. Feinstein announced her husbands death in a statement Monday morning that said her heart is broken today.. Feinstein and Berman divorced three years later. Feinstein is the first woman to have chaired the Senate Rules Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee, and the first woman to have presided over a U.S. presidential inauguration. 1957), was the presiding judge of the San Francisco Superior Court for 12 years, through 2012. 1979 . On November 5, 2022, she also became the longest-serving woman in U.S. Senate history. All Rights Reserved. During her tenure on the Board of Supervisors, she unsuccessfully ran for mayor of San Francisco twice, in 1971 against Mayor Joseph Alioto, and in 1975, when she lost the contest for a runoff slot (against George Moscone) by one percentage point to Supervisor John Barbagelata. She was quickly corrected by a staffer who informed her that the announcement had already been published.[47]. Connect to the World Family Tree to find out, June 22 1933 - San Francisco, California, USA, Leon Goldman, Elizabeth Betty Goldman (born Rosenberg), Banks (born Goldman), Kennedy (born Goldman), Goldman, Richard C. Blum, Jack Berman, Bertram Feinstein, Leon Goldman, Betty Goldman (born Rosenberg), Goldman, Banks (born Goldman), Apr 1 1950 - 1 Presidio Terrace, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States, Leon Goldman, Betty Goldman (born Rosenburg), Circa 1933 - San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, United States, Nov 11 1962 - San Francisco, California, USA, June 22 1933 - San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, United States, mayor married to businessman SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A buoyant Mayor, Government photo. As mayor, Feinstein angered the city's large gay community by vetoing domestic partner legislation in 1982. How good is that!! In March 2021, she became the longest-serving U.S. senator from California, surpassing Hiram Johnson. In 1959, she and Berman divorced, and the next year Feinstein was appointed by Governor Pat Brown to the state's Women's Board of Parole, becoming the youngest member in the nation. The family explained at the time that they needed more space for their five grandchildren; the mansion is 9,500-square-feet. public affairs group that was interested in criminal justice. 1933, to a Jewish physician father, Leon Goldman, and a Catholic [105], Feinstein has opposed a number of reforms to cannabis laws at the state and federal level. In 1992, when she . Richard Blum, husband of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a longtime University of California regent and a stalwart of Democratic politics in California, died Sunday of cancer [52][53], Feinstein achieved a score of 100% from the League of Conservation Voters in 2017. Sacred Heart High School was for boys only at the time. Born: June 22, 1933 One of the first challenges to face Feinstein as mayor was the state of the San Francisco cable car system. [128][129] She was selected to serve as one of the four chairs of the 1980 Democratic National Convention. Over time, she has moved left of center as California became one of the most Democratic states,[52][53][54] although she has never joined the ranks of progressives, and was once a member of the Senate's moderate, now-defunct Senate New Democrat Coalition.[55]. Because of her position, Feinstein became a target of the New World Liberation Front, who placed a bomb on her window sill which failed to explode and who later shot out the windows of a beach house which she owned.[16]. So, I think it's a last resort. Feinstein also became the first female Jewish senator in the United States, though Boxer is also Jewish. -2004, , -10 , . paparazzi (photographers who follow famous people around in attempt to 1969 and served on the board through the 1970s. Feinstein was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1969. [82], Feinstein announced she would step down from her position on the Judiciary Committee after pressure from progressives due to her performance at the Supreme Court nomination hearings of Justice Amy Coney Barrett in October 2020. After her mother's WebFeinstein's paternal grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Poland, while her maternal grandparents, who were of the Russian Orthodox faith, were from Saint Petersburg, [33] Molinari was selected to replace Feinstein as president of the Board of Supervisors by a vote of eight to two. Senator Dianne Feinstein to Retire The Democrat of California, who was first elected to the Senate in 1992, plans to serve out her term but will not run for re-election in KRON-TV News footage from November 10th 1969 featuring scenes from a visit by reporter Myra Scott to the family home of newly elected San Francisco Supervisor Dianne Feinstein. [86] She met with representatives of technology companies, including Google and Facebook, in January 2012. He chose Geraldine Ferraro instead. [18] Feinstein also oversaw planning policies to increase the number of high rise buildings in San Francisco.[19]. Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein was born on June 22, 1933, as Dianne Emiel Goldman in San Francisco. Her mother Betty Rosenburg was a former model and her father Leon Goldman was a surgeon. Cancer Coalition and the National Dialogue on Cancer. A month Mikulski, Barbara, and Catherine Whitney. degree in 1955. [144], Feinstein has been married three times. Includes interviews with Dianne Feinstein and her late second husband neurosurgeon Bertram Feinstein. Feinstein was close by in City Hall at the time of the shootings, and discovered Milk's body after hearing the gunshots and going to investigate. In 2003, Feinstein was ranked the fifth-wealthiest senator, with an estimated net worth of $26 million. in 1996, Feinstein shared the floor with eight fellow women senators, San Francisco: Harper-CollinsWest, 1994. The following year, Feinstein married Jack Berman, whom she met in the San Francisco district attorney's office, and later had a daughter. Perhaps because of her statewide ambitions, Feinstein was seen as a relatively moderate Democrat in one of the country's most liberal cities. Gonzales initially ran to be appointed by the Board of Supervisors as mayor, but dropped out. [132], As a superdelegate in the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries, Feinstein said she would support Clinton for the nomination. Feinstein was born in San Francisco, California, on June 22, 1933. In mid-March, she sent Gorsuch a letter stating her request had not been met. When her first marriage ended in She served on the Trilateral Commission during the 1980s. She made it clear she accepted both religions as valuable to HER. But on October 22, 2022, Feinstein said that she would not be interested in the role were it offered to her. He was 86. 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