Emeritus Advisory Board
*Leo T. McCarthy - Former California Lieutenant Governor of California; Founder, Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good (1930-2007)
Art Agnos - Mayor of San Francisco (1988 -1992), former Regional Head, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
Nancy Barrett - Senior Vice President, U.S. Trust Bank of America
Jude Barry - CEO, Catapult Strategies, Verafirma
Joseph W. Cotchett - Attorney, Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy
Honorable Joan Buchanan – Former Member, California State Assembly
Sheila Burke - Strategic advisor, Baker Donelson; former Undersecretary for the Smithsonian Institute
Honorable Betsy Butler – Former Member, California State Assembly
Mary Ruth Carleton - Vice President, University Relations, San Diego State University
Sandy Chau - Director, Accela, Inc.
Corey Cook - Vice Provost, St. Mary's College of California; former Director of the Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good
Joe Cotchett - Attorney, Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy
Frank Damrell - U.S. District Court Judge (ret.)
Sheryl Davis - Executive Director, San Francisco Human Rights Commission
*Honorable John Foran - Former Member, California State Senate (1930-2014)
Holly Hogan - Associate General Counsel, Automattic/WordPress.com
Loretta Holstein - Community leader, Robert and Loretta Holstein Scholarship Fund, University of San Francisco
Eric Jaye - Founder and President, Storefront Political Media
*Ralph Lane - Founder/Chair, Sociology Department, University of San Francisco (1923- 2005)
Emily Lo Savio - Executive Director, Opportunity Impact
Antoinette M. Malveaux - Director, Casey Family Programs
Susan Marineau - Co- founder, Marineau Family Foundation
Craig Montuori - Founder and Executive Director, PolitiHacks
Alexandra Morgan - CEO, Family House, Retired
Patrick Murphy - Fellow, Opportunity Institute; former Director of the Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good
Justice William Newsom - California State Appeals Court Justice (ret.); Financial Advisor, Getty family trust
Vicky Nguyen - Investigative & Consumer Correspondent, NBC Bay Area News, Valedictorian, Class of 2000, University of San Francisco
Stephen Pearce - Rabbi Emeritus, Congregation Emanu-El
Mary Rosenblatt Powell - Former Chief Development Officer, San Francisco Opera
Rev. Stephen Privett, S.J. - Chancellor and Former President, University of San Francisco; Co-founder, McCarthy Center
Perla Rodriguez - CEO, Voler Strategic Advisors
Shari Roeseler - Executive Director, Society for the Blind
Ronald Rose - Principal, LoopLender Inc.
Jaime Rossi - Partner, Storefront Political Media
Catarina Schwab - Vice President, buildOn
Don Sebastiani -Founder, Don Sebastiani & Sons; former Member, California State Assembly
Rhonda Smira- Sloat Higgins Jensen and Associates
*Jack Smith - Former Mayor of Hayward, California (1927-2008)
Richard Spohn - Lawyer, Nossaman LLP (ret); Founding Director, Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good
*Kevin Starr - Historian; University Professor of History, University of Southern California; former California State Librarian (1940-2017)
Dominique Tan - Director of Business Intelligence & Budgets, Unical Aviation, Inc.
Joe Trippi - Founder, Trippi and Associates
Suzanne Troxel - CEO, Pivot Point Capital
Jennifer Turpin - USF Professor of Sociology; former Provost and Academic Vice President, University of San Francisco; former Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences