1021 O Street, Suite 8630
Sacramento, CA 95814-4900
1515 Clay Street, Suite 2202
Oakland, CA 94612
Full Name:
Nancy Skinner
Gender:
Female
Family:
Husband: Lance; 1 Child: Sirona
Birth Date:
08/12/1954
Birth Place:
San Francisco, CA
Home City:
Berkeley, CA
BS, Natural Resource Sciences, University of California Berkeley
MA, Education, University of California Berkeley
Majority Whip, California State Senate, 2020-present
Senator, California State Senate, District 9, 2016-present
Candidate, California State Senate, District 9, 2020
Assembly Member, California State Assembly, District 14, 2008-2014
City Councilmember, City of Berkeley, 1984-1992
Chair, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review
Member, Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee
Member, Environmental Quality Committee
Member, Governance and Finance Committee
Member, Housing Committee
Chair, Joint Legislative Budget Committee
Member, Public Safety Committee
Member, Select Committee on Hydrogen Energy
Former Member, Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee, California State Senate
Former Member, Insurance Committee, California State Assembly
Former Chair, Public Safety Committee, California State Senate
Former Member, Select Committee on Career Technology and the New Economy, California State Senate
Former Member, Select Committee on Women, Work and Families, California State Senate
Former Chair, Subcommittee 5 on Corrections, Public Safety and the Judiciary, California State Senate
Former Member, Transportation and Housing Committee, California State Senate
Senior Policy Fellow, Energy and Transportation Institutes, University of California, Davis, present
Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, present
United States Director, Climate Group, 2004-2007
United States Director/International Coordinator, ICLEI Cities for Climate Protection, 1994-2004
Field Manager, Barbara Lee for United States Congress, 2002
Coordinator, Loni Hancock for State Assembly, 2002
Administrative Director, Graduate Assembly, University of California, Berkeley, 1981-1989
Board Member, Community Conservation Centers Incorporated, present
Founder, Local Governments for Sustainability, International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, present
Member, National Organization of Women, present
Member, Western Legislative Forestry Task Force, present
Founder, Women in Power Political Action Committee, present
Former Member, Advisory Committee, Energy Commission's Climate Change
Former Member, Alameda County Stop Waste Board
Former Member, Alameda County Training & Employment Board
Member, Alameda Democratic Club
Board Member, Berkeley Film Foundation
Board Member, Center for EcoLiteracy
Board Member, David Brower Center
Former Member, East Bay Regional Park District Board
Member, East Bay Women's Political Caucus
Member, El Cerrito Democratic Club
Member, Metropolitcan Greater Oakland Democratic Club
Former Member, San Francisco Clean Technology Task Force
Member, Stonewall Democratic Club
Member, Wellstone Democratic Club
Board Member, Youth Alive, Oakland
Board Member, East Bay Regional Parks District, 2006-2008
Awards:
Courageous Leadership Award by the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence
Favorite Book:
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert & The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power by Steve Fraser
Favorite Musician:
Cyndi Lauper, Sarah Vaughan, Rhianna, Annie Lennox, Sonny Rollins, Bill Charlap, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Amy Winehouse
Favorite Quote:
"To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, and kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places- and there are so many- where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction." Howard Zinn
Spouse's Occupation:
Public service retiree