The former San Francisco mayor served five terms in the U.S. Senate, where she fought for gun control and against torture and always knew how to cross the aisle.
She was the first woman to lead the San Francisco County Board of Supervisors in the ’70s, and while the significance of that office doesn’t resonate today like it did then, it foreshadowed a groundbreaking career for Feinstein, who at 5-foot-10 could easily command a room and hold her own with all the men around her.
She was a “new Democrat” before the term was invented, steering compromises and successfully navigating internal party pressures. She pushed measures tough on crime while also advocating gun control. From the moment she arrived in the Senate, she was known for her willingness to cross party lines. In 1994, as a freshman lawmaker, she wrote the bill that banned military-style semiautomatic assault weapons and pushed it through the Senate to passage.
It was a defining moment in San Francisco’s relationship with its increasingly visible gay community, depicted at the time as the most violent uprising by gay Americans since the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City. Born Dianne Emiel Goldman on June 22, 1933 to Dr. Leon Goldman, a prominent surgeon who was the first Jewish chair of surgery at the University of California San Francisco’s medical school, and Betty Rosenburg, a Russian emigre whose family had fled Saint Petersburg during the 1917 Revolution. Her Russian-American mother, who worked as a model and was known for her beauty, suffered from erratic behavior that was later attributed to an organic brain disorder.
Holding a copy of a billboard to be placed in 20 locations throughout San Francisco on Jan. 20, 1983.Big things were always expected of Feinstein. She was mayor of San Francisco when she was first touted as a potential vice-presidential candidate. It was 1984, and Democrat Walter Mondale was looking to make history and choose a woman as his running mate. Feinstein found it preposterous. “I’m on my third marriage,” she exclaimed. “This job is hell on my private life.
A brief early marriage to Jack Berman, then an assistant district attorney in San Francisco, resulted in Feinstein’s only child, daughter Katherine Feinstein Mariano, born in 1957, who is currently the presiding judge of the San Francisco Superior Court.
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