2019 San Francisco mayoral election
London Breed was elected Mayor of San Francisco in a 2018 special election to serve until 2020, filling the unexpired term of Ed Lee, who was elected in 2011 and 2015, and died in office on December 12, 2017. Breed confirmed that she intends to run for re-election to a first full term in office in 2019.
San Francisco Public Defender's Office
Jeff Adachi, who was elected in 2002 and has held office since 2003, is the only elected public defender in California and runs an office of more than100 attorneys and 60 staff members, which has a $24 million budget and serves 23,000 clients each year.. Because Adachi answers to the voters rather than the mayor, he has used his position to advocate for increased public defender funding, reduction of racial disparities, police and prosecutorial accountability, and criminal justice reform in San Francisco.