Candidate for
Member, Democratic Party County Central Committee; San Francisco County; Assembly District 13

Scott Wiener is running for reelection to the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee, District 13. Scott has lived in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood since 1997. He is a Deputy City Attorney in the San Francisco City Attorney's Office + one of the first attorneys hired by City Attorney Dennis Herrera + where he supervises a team of attorneys on the Trial Team and represents San Francisco in court. Scott has litigated from the state and federal trial courts up to the U.S. Supreme Court and has handled numerous jury trials. As a Deputy City Attorney, Scott works closely with a variety of City departments and is very familiar with how they function, including their strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement. Scott has dedicated himself to improving San Francisco and has a significant track record of leadership and getting things done for the community.

Scott has worked for years to improve neighborhood quality of life. He served as President of the Eureka Valley Promotion Association, the neighborhood association for the Castro/Upper Market. In that role, he focuses on improving public spaces and ensuring sound neighborhood planning. Scott helped provide leadership to create the new 17th Street Plaza at 17th and Market Streets. He helped found Castro Community on Patrol, a neighborhood walking patrol comprised of volunteers dedicated to making the Castro and Duboce Triangle a safer place. Scott organized a community safety forum to focus on key safety issues in the neighborhood and was a member of Mayor Newsom's citywide Community Policing Advisory Committee.

Scott has been a leader in the Democratic Party. He served as chairman of the San Francisco Democratic Party and co-chaired the Alice B. Toklas Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Democratic Club. He is currently an elected member of the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee and continues to serve on the Alice B. Toklas board of directors. As Democratic Party Chairman, Scott led the party in achieving financial stability, building a field organizing staff, and registering 15,000 voters.

Scott has fought tenaciously for equality for the LGBT community. He served as treasurer and then co-chair of the board of directors of the San Francisco LGBT Community Center. He played a key leadership role in transforming the 25-year dream of an LGBT Community Center into a reality, helping lead the project through construction, financing, grand opening, the first several years of programmatic operation, and the hiring of the Center's first two executive directors. He served for four years on the board of directors of Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom (BALIF), which is the Bay Area's LGBT bar association, and co-chaired the organization. He served for almost a decade on the national board of directors of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest LGBT advocacy organization. In accomplishing these things, Scott has built lasting organizations that make our community a better place. From the LGBT Community Center to Castro Community on Patrol to the San Francisco Democratic Party, Scott has focused on building infrastructure to improve our community.

Scott was born in Philadelphia and grew up in southern New Jersey, the son of small business owners. He attended college at Duke University, studied on a Fulbright Scholarship in Chile, and attended Harvard Law School. After law school, Scott served as a law clerk on the Supreme Court of New Jersey. In 1997, Scott moved to San Francisco. Before joining the City Attorney's Office, he spent five years as an attorney with Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe, where he practiced complex commercial litigation, with a focus on financial and accounting-related cases. Scott devoted almost 20% of his time at Heller Ehrman to pro bono matters, including representing low-income tenants facing eviction and asylum-seekers. Scott received an award from the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights for his pro bono legal services and community work and has received community service and leadership awards from the Bar Association of San Francisco and Alice B. Toklas.