Edmund G. Brown

Jerry Brown is the former Governor of California. He was born in San Francisco on April 7, 1938. He was elected trustee for the Los Angeles Community College District in 1969, California Secretary of State in 1970, and Governor of California in 1974 and 1978. After his governorship, he lectured and traveled widely, practiced law, served as chair of the California Democratic Party, and ran for US president. He was elected mayor of Oakland in 1998 and 2002, California Attorney General in 2006, and Governor again in 2010 and 2014. He currently serves as chair of the California-China Climate Institute at University of California, Berkeley, executive chair of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, chair of the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation advisory board, board member of the Council on Criminal Justice, and as chair of the Oakland Military Institute College Preparatory Academy, one of two public charter schools he founded in Oakland more than 20 years ago. He earned degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and Yale Law School.