Sean Elsbernd

Sean Elsbernd (born February 2, 1976) is a San Francisco politician.

Supervisor Elsbernd represents District 7 on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, which encompasses single-family neighborhoods west of Twin Peaks as well as the largest rental housing neighborhood west of the Mississippi – the Villas at Parkmerced. Lake Merced, Harding Park Golf Course, San Francisco State University, City College of San Francisco, and Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center are some of the notable landmarks in District 7.

The people of District 7 elected Elsbernd to the Board of Supervisors in November 2004, following his August 2004 appointment to the Board by Mayor Gavin Newsom. Elsbernd currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Rules Committee and Chair of the Transportation Authority’s Finance Committee.

He sits on the Health Service System Board and the Retirement Board serving City employees and City retirees. Elsbernd has served on the Budget and Finance Committee of the Board of Supervisors in each of his two complete years as a member of the Board.

Personal Life/Education

Supervisor Elsbernd is a third-generation San Franciscan - born, raised, and educated in District 7. He attended grammar school at St. Cecilia’s and then joined St. Ignatius College Preparatory’s first coeducational class, graduating in 1993.

He is married to Jennifer Johnston Nov. 11, 2005. She works for the San Francisco Department of Human Resources and is on that department's executive team. She is the Chairperson of SFGV RESOURCES SUB-COMMITTEE of COIT,the Committee on Information Technology. She received the 2006 Public Managerial Excellence Awards (MFAC) from SPUR. The SPUR Award recognizes an individual manager who has demonstrated exceptional efficiency and consistent achievement. Jennifer Johnston was part of a team that wrote the Civil Service Reform: Preserving the Promise of Government Department of Human Resources report.

He went on to receive his BA from Claremont McKenna College in 1997 and graduated from University of California Hastings College of the Law in 2000. He was subsequently admitted to the California Bar in December 2000. "Prior to his work in City Hall, Sean worked with the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office and in the office of Congressman Tom Lantos as a co-director of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus." It is not a committee of congress. In 1983, Lantos was a founding co-chairman of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus. San Francisco Supervisor Sean Elsbernd served as co-director of the caucus in 1995. "In reality, the Human Rights Caucus, chaired by California Democrat Tom Lantos and Illinois Republican John Porter, was simply an association of politicians. Lantos and Porter were co-chairs of the Congressional Human Rights Foundation, a legally separate entity that occupied free office space valued at $3,000 a year in Hill & Knowlton's Washington, DC office. Notwithstanding its congressional trap- pings, the Congressional Human Rights Caucus served as another Hill & Knowlton front group, which -- like all front groups -- used a noble-sounding name to disguise its true purpose."(How Public Relations sold the Gulf War to the US By John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton. 29 August, 1996)