Endorsement List
Working with Yoriko on the Palo Alto City Council, I saw, firsthand, that she is diligent, smart and collaborative. Yoriko does her homework and makes thoughtful decisions based on the facts. She will bring a voice of reason and integrity to Sacramento.
– Justice LaDoris Cordell
I've seen Yoriko demonstrate her commitment to our environment with courageous and effective advocacy. That kind of dedication is necessary if we want to leave to our children any of the wildlife we have enjoyed.
– Florence LaRiviere, Bay & Wetland Preservationist
Organizations
California List
National Women’s Political Caucus
Sierra Club
Women's Campaign Forum
Elected Officials
Jerry Carlson, Atherton Mayor
Elizabeth Lewis, Atherton City Council Member
Christine Wozniak, Belmont Mayor
Tom Bates, Berkeley Mayor and BAAQMD Secretary
Dan Furtado, Campbell City Council Member
Joseph Hernandez, Campbell City Council Member
Kris Wang, Cupertino Mayor
Barry Chang, Cupertino City Council Member
Mike Ferreira Former Halfmoon Bay Mayor
Ed Balico, Hercules Vice Mayor
David Casas, Los Altos Mayor & President of the Santa Clara County Cities Association
Mike O’Malley, Los Altos City Council Member
Breene Kerr, Los Altos Hills Mayor Pro Tem
Rich Larsen, Los Altos Hills City Council Member
Robert Curtis Cole, Former Los Altos City Council Member
King Lear, Former Los Altos City Council Member
Jean Mordo, Former Los Altos Hills Mayor & City Council Member
Ginger Summit, Los Altos Hills City Council Member
Jean Mordo, Former Los Altos Hills Mayor
Steve Glickman, Former Los Gatos Mayor & City Council Member
Mark Ross, Martinez Vice Mayor & Former Chair BAAQMD
Richard Cline, Menlo Park Mayor
Chuck Kinney, Former Menlo Park Mayor & City Council Member
Steve Schmidt, Former Menlo Park City Council Member
Sue Garner, Monte Sereno City Council Member & BAAQMD Member
Dennis Kennedy, Former Morgan Hill Mayor
Larry Carr, Morgan Hill City Council Member
Hedy Chang, Former Morgan Hill Vice Mayor
Matt Pear, Former Mountain View Mayor and City Council Member
Pat Burt, Palo Alto Mayor & Former City Council Member
Sid Espinosa, Palo Alto Vice Mayor
Larry Klein, Palo Alto Former Mayor & City Council Member
Greg Schmid, Palo Alto City Council Member
Melissa Baten Caswell, Palo Alto Board of Education Member
Barbara Sih Klausner, Palo Alto Board of Education Member
Barbara Mitchell, Palo Alto Board of Education Member
Jim Burch, Former Palo Alto Mayor
Gail Woolley, Former Palo Alto Mayor & Council Member
LaDoris Cordell, Former Palo Alto Council Member, Superior Court Judge & Special Counselor to President, Stanford University
Gary Fazzino, Former Palo Alto Mayor & Worldwide VP of Government Affairs at Applied Materials
Ellen Fletcher, Former Palo Alto Vice Mayor & City Council Member
Hillary Freeman, Former Palo Alto City Council Member
Leland Levy, Former Palo Alto Mayor & Senior Vice President Wells Fargo Advisors
Enid Pearson, Former Palo Alto Vice Mayor & City Council Member
Emily Renzel, Former Palo Alto City Council Member
Lanie Wheeler, Former Palo Alto Mayor & CFO Palo Alto Community Child Care
Pamela Torliatt, Petaluma Mayor & BAAQMD Chair
Jennifer Hosterman, Pleasanton Mayor & BAAQMD Member
Ted Driscoll, Portola Valley Council Member
John Silver, Former Mayor of Portola Valley
Jamie McLeod, Santa Clara City Council Member
Linda LeZotte, San Jose City Council Member
Susie Nagpal, Saratoga City Council Member
Chuck Page, Saratoga City Council Member
Melinda Hamilton, Sunnyvale Mayor
Dean Chu, Sunnyvale Council Member & MTC Commissioner
Mark Green, Union City Mayor
Individuals
* titles are for identification purposes only.
Atherton
John P. Davey, Chair of the Atherton Parks and Recreation Commission
Valerie Gardner, Atherton Green
William Grindley, Atherton Planning Commission
Masazumi Ishii, Managing Director Noventi Ventures, LLC
Janet Larson, Chair of Conservation Committee, Atherton-Woodside Garden Club
Nancy Yoshikawa, Engineer - US Environmental Protection Agency – Water Division Region 9
Dr. Aki Yoshikawa, Chairman & Managing Partner at Global Health Consulting
Keiko Franklin
Masa Ishii
Berkeley
Roy Nakadegawa, Former publicly elected Transit Director to BART & AC Transit
Nancy Beckman
Shivani Mohan
East Palo Alto
Arnold Hart, Executive Director Care First Services and East Palo Alto Rent Stabilization Board
Meda O. Okelo, Community Services Director - East Palo Alto
Foster City
Yoko Kanamatsu
Loomis
Gary Liss
Los Altos
Ralph Adams, President of Palo Alto Rotary
Kim Cranston, Board Chair of Transparent Democracy & Global Security Institute, Board Member of the Los Altos Community Foundation, & Member of the Human Rights Watch CA Committee North
Kacey Fitzpatrick, Executive Director Green Town Los Altos & Principal at Avalon Enterprises, Inc.
Laurel Korwin
William Lamping
Isao Nojima
Everett Palmer
Randy Rhody
Lynn Wilson Roberts
Particia Rosewater
Sharon Storms
Peter La Tourrette
Mary Tsukushi
Chika Watanabe
Dr. Sophia Yen
Los Altos Hills
Former Council Member Michael O'Malley
Robert Smithwick, Founding Board President Foothill College
John Swan, Founder and Executive Director Global Green Village and CoFounder Eco Green Group
William Almon
Nobuko Saito Cleary
Nancy Couperus
Thomas Dillon
Barbara Mordo
Steve and Lisa Schmidt
Margaret Suozzo
Connie Young Yu
Los Gatos
Babette Ito
Masato Matsuo
Harold Werlich
Menlo Park
Bruce Cahan, Founder & CEO Urban Logic, Ashoka Fellow & Stanford Law School's Center for Internet & Society Fellow
Chuck Bernstein
Karin Bloom
Anita and Dan Dippery
Brielle Johnck
John Kadvany
Mary Kenney
Catherine Martineau
Hiroshi Menjo
Joseph Monzel
Keiko Nakajima
Scott Stanton
Star Teachout
Elizabeth Thompson
Dr. James Zehender
Mountain View
Barry Burr
Jennifer Couperus
Linda Lenoir
Sharon Refvem
Jeffrey Segall
Jeff Selzer
Pescadero
Lennie Roberts, Legislative Advocate, Committee for Green Foothills
Portola Valley
Dr. Katherine Forrest, Co-Founder & Board of Director at the Commonweal Institute
Dr. Cindy Lee Russell
Pat Baenen, Owner Scaled-Up Productions
Patt Baenen
Carol Bain
Nancy Elkurch
Greg Fontanini
Ivan Morvay
David Smernoff
Tom & Nusrai Uridel
Edna Wallace
Redwood City
Bill Collins, Founding Board Member of California League of Conservation Voters and Executive Committee Member, Sierra Club
Melissa Hippard, Former Executive Director, Loma Prieta Chapter Sierra Club
Linda Busek
Andy Chow
Michael Closson
Terry Hamilton
George Miljanich
Ralph Nobles
John Northway
Karen Singer
Santa Clara
Akiko Futamura
Akemi Kodo
San Carlos
Patricia Potter, San Carlos Green Member
Ann Iverson
Paul Magginetti
Allene Sieling
Kristin Tripp Caldwell
San Francisco
Donna Hall, President & CEO of Women Donors Network
George Hara, Managing Partner Defta Partners
Daphne Kwok, Executive Director at Asian & Pacific Islanders with Disabilities of California
Jim Ochowicz, Director _Private Client Services at Thomas Weisel Partners & Past President of USA Federation of Cycling
Eugene Leong, Former Executive Director of Association of Bay Area Government
Steven Trieu, Director of Finance at Facebook
Lewis H. Butler
Carrie Denning
Joe Hughes
Andrew Mager
San Leandro
Nazomi Hosokawa
San Jose
May Allam
Edesa Bitbadal
Mark Brodsky
Alice Frayne
Jean & John Gize
Jonah Houston
Aggie Idemoto
Daniel Newell
Yolanda Reynolds
Timothy Winfred
San Mateo
Colette Rudd
Anne Saldich
San Rafael
David Schonbrunn
Saratoga
Stanford
Martin Carnoy, Vida Jacks Professor of Education
Ralph Cavanagh, NRDC Co- Director of Energy Programs
Dr. Philippe S. Cohen, Administrative Director Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve Stanford University
William B. Gould IV, Charles A. Berdsley Professor of Law, Emeritus and former Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board
Dr. Stephen H. Schneider, Co-Director at the Stanford Center for Environment Science & Policy
Barton H. “Buzz” Thompson, Co-Director at the Woods Institute for the Environment
Svetla Alexandrov
Yoshiko Amemiya
Ryan Louie
Dillon Mccoy
Sunnyvale
Margaret Okuzumi
Boulder, CO
William Peterson
I am voting for Yoriko because she has dedicated her career to keeping our streets safe and making our community more walkable and bikable. She was instrumental in the Walk and Roll and Safe Routes to School programs and is helping make Palo Alto’s new public safety building a reality.
– Chris Ewert, Adobe
Palo Alto
Sherry Bijan, President Palo Alto Downtown (Business and Professional Association)
Dennis Boyle, Principal, IDEO
Father Gene Boyle
Beth Bunnenberg, Palo Alto Historic Resources Board
Michael Closson, Executive Director Acterra
Dr. Richard Dasher, Director, US-Asia Technology Management Center & Executive Director, Center for Integrated Systems, Stanford University
Dr. Ron Davis, Director, Stanford Genome Technology Center
Steve Eglash, Palo Alto Utilities Advisory Committee
Claude Ezran Palo Alto Human Relations Commission
Samina Faheem Sundas, Founder/Executive Director American Muslim Voice Foundation & Human Relations Commissioner, Santa Clara County
Marianna Grossman, Executive Director at Sustainable Silicon Valley
Tina Gogarty, President of Palo Alto Educators Association
Carroll Harrington, Harrington Design & Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce Tall Tree Professional/Business Person (2009) & Athena Award (1993)
Martin Hellman, Member, National Academy of Engineering & Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Kenneth Huo, Palo Alto Public Art Commission
Dr. Arthur Keller, Managing Partner at Minerva Consulting
Nicole Lederer, Co-founder E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs)
Alexander Lew, Chair Palo Alto Architectural Review Board
Paul Losch, Palo Alto Parks and Recreation Commission
Dr. Hal Luft, Director of PAMF Research Institute
Roger Noll, Professor of Economics Emeritus at Stanford University & Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
Paula Sandas, President & CEO Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce
Daryl Savage, Chair, Palo Alto Human Relations Commission
Machiko Shiozaki, Owner Kimura Gallery
Terry Shuchat, Keeble and Shuchat
Michael Smit, Palo Alto Public Art Commission
Roger Smith, founder of Silicon Valley Bank
Yoichiro (Yokum) Taku, Corporate & Securities Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Sven Thesen, Better Place
Larisa Usich, Palo Alto Public Art Commission
Judith Wasserman, Palo Alto Architectural Review Board
Ralph Adams
Rick Adams
Betsy Allen
Craig & Dianne Allen
Nathaniel & Elizabeth Allyn
Clark & Kathy Akatiff
Lisa Altieri
Yoshiko Amemiya
Linda Anderson
Marguerite Anderson
Harry Anisgard
Gillian Athayade
Adam Atito
Matthew Bahls
Fred Balin
Guriqbal & Jagdish Basi
Becky Beacom
Joseph Bellomo
Dorothy Bender
Martin Bernstein
Ramona A. Blackburn
Ceilia Boyle
Joan Brennan
Jeffrey Brown
David & Trish Bubenik
Wileta Burch
Anthony Carrasco
Preston Carter
G Lowe Chang
Laurence Chinn
Dr. Peter Chiu
Lee Collins
Maya Collins
Sarah Collins
Mary Cooper
Elodie Coulson
Audrey & Bill Cutler
Dr. Janet Dafoe
Whitney Dafoe
Darsha Davidoff & Don Drumright
Carolyn Davidson
Brian Davis
Cedric de La Beaujardiere & Susan Stansbury
Arline Dehlinger
Winter Dellenbach
Kingston Duffie & Elizabeth Schwerer
Jeanne Duisenberg
Dan & Sunny Dykwel
Jonathan "Jeb" Eddy
Joseph Ehrlich
Sue Elgee
Claire Elliott
Richard Ellson
Kate Elmore
Erika Enos
Stephanie Enos
Anne Ercolani
Chris Ewert
Seth Fearey
Richard Ferguson
Herbert Fischgrund
Jon & Catherine Crystal Foster
Perry & Rita French
Anne Friedlander
Charmaine Furman
Betsy Gamburd
Karl Garcia
Rex and Ann Garr
Betty Gerard
Rosmarie Giamalis
Elfrid Gioumousis
Annette Glanckopf
Georgie Gleim
Mollie W. Goetz
Evan Goldin
Richard Graglia
Pria Graves
Timothy Gray
David Greene
John Morrow Hackmann
Elaine Haight
Jack & Myllicent Hamilton
Bob Harrington
Stu & Sandra Harris
Karen Harwell
Dr. Harry & Sadako Hatasaka
Art & Gogo Heinrich
Muriel Herhold
Henry Heubach
Elizabeth & Terry Hogan
Jeffrey Hook
Professor Roland Horne & Yoko Kawashima
Nancy Huber
Hilary Hug
Frank Ingle
Cynthia Jacobson
Lynn Jacobson & Meimei Pan
Raelyn Jacobson
Dr. MH & Sara Jennison
Rebecca Jennison
Thomas Jordan Jr.
Karen Kang
Yoko Kawashima
Bette Kiernan
John King
Dr. Yasuo Kishimoto
June Klein
Dr. Karl Knapp
Yuki Kondo-Shah
Iris Korol
Keith & Mary Ann Kvenvolden
Rita & Robert Lancefield
Florence LaRiviere
Flora Lee
Marvin & Alison Lee
Cathie Lehrberg
Pat Levin
Todd Lewis
Sandra Lonnquist
Dan Lorimer
Don Mayall
Diane McGrath and Vincent Toolan
William and Elizabeth Meehan
Elaine Meyer
Melissa Miranda
Debbie Mytels
Nancy Neff
Nelson Ng
Mohammed Ocean
Drs. James O'Donohue & Beverly Sarver
Adrienne & Jay Oliff
Jean Olmstead
Barbara Ostby
Dr. Harlan & Rebecca Pinto
Andy Poggio
Sherry Prausa
Pam Radin
Joni Reid
Karen & Steve Ross
Bob and Aileene Roth
Misao Sakamoto
Lois Salo
Paula Sandas
Patricia & Tom Sanders
David Schrom
Martha Seaver
Joe & Harriette Shakes
Alice J. Sklar
Jean Slocum
Nancy Spangler
Bill Stankovic
Brian Steen
Judith Steiner
Judith Steinhart
Chris & Jana Stevens
Jim Stinger
Arne Stoschek
Stephen Stuart
Rickson Sun
Susan Tachna
Darla Tupper
Frank & Sharon Viggiano
Olenka Villarreal
Marcel Vinokur
Alan Wachtel
Tom Wagner
Asher Waldfogel & Helyn Maclean
Saul Wasserman
Ralph Wheeler
Karen White
Lisbeth & Norman Winarsky
Linnea Wickstrom
Sarah Wolfe
Kimberly Wong
Ellen & Tom Wyman
Yuri Yamashita
Kelly Yarkin
George Young
Helen Young
Tom Yoritaka
Karen Yorke
Al Yuen
Israel Zehavi