Sally Lieber  Sally J. Lieber (born April 24, 1961) is a current California State Senate candidate and was a Democratic California State Assemblywoman and former Mountain View City Councilwoman and Mayor. She represented the 22nd Assembly District that includes the cities of Belmont, Millbrae, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Cupertino and portions of Santa Clara and San Jose which are all located in Santa Clara County. Lieber held the office of Speaker pro Tempore in the 2007-2008 legislative session. In the November 7, 2006 general election she was re-elected to her third and final term in the assembly, beating her Republican opponent Roger Riffenburgh by 68.8% to 31.2%. In 2008, she was term-limited out of the office. Lieber currently serves as an advisor to the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority, an agency that was created through her legislation, and recently served on Attorney General Kamala D. Harris' transition team working on women's rehabilitation and mental health. Lieber is a candidate for California State Senate in District 13, being vacated by Jerry Hill. Lieber is one of five Democrats running for a seat. Lieber was born in Detroit, Michigan on April 24, 1961. As a youth growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, she was interested in the antiwar and civil rights movements. In junior high school, she wore glasses over her hair so she would look like Gloria Steinem, the feminist icon and revolutionary journalist. After graduating from high school, Lieber worked restoring Victorian houses and specialized in hanging historical wallpapers. She spent 10 years at this job. As she hung wallpaper, Lieber's interest in politics grew as she listened to NPR and this encouraged Lieber to return to school. In her late 20s, she began taking night classes at San Francisco City College. During this time, she met her husband David Phillips, a product management director in Mountain View. The two ran into each other at Burning Man, an art festival held every year in the Nevada desert. After they married in 1992, Lieber moved to the peninsula and transferred to Foothill College, where she started going to school full-time and became involved in student government. She worked on issues of child care for student parents, campus access for the disabled and student health care. In the mid-1990s, Lieber transferred to Stanford University with a political science major, working with Luis Fraga. The 37-year-old Lieber, still a senior at Stanford, launched her campaign for city government in 1998.