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Yiaway Yeh (Chinese: 葉亞威; Yè Yàwēi [1]) is former city councilmember and mayor of Palo Alto, California. He was elected to office in 2007 [2] and was elected to mayor by the city council of Palo Alto on January 3, 2012. [3] Yeh is the second youngest mayor in Palo Alto history and the first Taiwanese American to hold the office. [1]
Palo Alto (/ ˌ p æ l oʊ ˈ æ l t oʊ / PAL-oh AL-toh; Spanish for ' tall stick ') is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto. The city of Palo Alto was established in 1894 by the American industrialist ...
Nancy Shepherd was a Mayor of the City of Palo Alto, California. She was elected to office by the Palo Alto City Council on 6 January 2014, [1] and replaced by fellow councilwoman Karen Holman on 5 January 2016. [2] Shepherd was born in San Francisco, California in 1954.
In November 2022, Lythcott-Haims was elected to the Palo Alto city council. [ 16 ] In 2023, Lythcott-Haims announced her candidacy for California's 16th congressional district in the 2024 United States House of Representatives elections . [ 17 ]
Sid Espinosa on University Ave. in Palo Alto, CA. Sid Espinosa (born May 24, 1972) is an American businessman and politician. He is the former mayor of Palo Alto, CA, notably the first Hispanic to be elected to public office in that city's history, and at 38 years old at the time he was elected, he was one of the city's youngest mayors.
Peter Drekmeier (born July 6, 1965) is Policy Director [1] [2] for the Tuolumne River Trust, [3] former Mayor [4] of The City of Palo Alto, and a co-founding member of Acterra, [5] and worked closely with Dennis Hayes [6] during the Earthday 1990 movement.
The Abilene City Council approved the resale of a portion of the city’s water supply to Palo Pinto County Municipal Water District No. 1 at their Feb. 8 meeting.
Clay was involved with local politics, and was the first African-American to join the city council of Palo Alto in 1973. He was elected vice mayor in 1976. [2] [5] In 1989, he became the first African-American member of the Olympic Club. [19] In addition, in 1992, he was a founding member of the Olympic Club Foundation. [20]