One on One with SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins

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We’re excited to have a fireside chat with San Francisco's newly appointed DA Brooke Jenkins. She’s had a fiery entrance so far. Jenkins shook up the DA’s office, firing 15 of her predecessor Chesa Boudin’s staffers and hiring women of color to top managerial positions.

Join us as we talk about Brooke’s time leading up to her appointment as SF District Attorney and what her goals are while leading the DA Office. Do you have questions you’d like to ask her?

We can’t wait to hear them. See you there!

About Brooke Jenkins:

San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins was sworn in as San Francisco’s 30th District Attorney on July 8, 2022. Jenkins leads the District Attorney’s Office and its mission to promote public safety and advance justice for all and is committed to implementing important and vital criminal justice reforms responsibly.

A Bay Area native and Black and Latina woman, District Attorney Jenkins has seen the imbalances and disproportionate impacts of the criminal justice system firsthand. She has had family members on both sides of the courtroom and has seen and felt the impacts of police violence and misconduct. She believes reforms are necessary to ensure that justice is proportional and fairly executed for every person in San Francisco regardless of who they are or where they are from.

Jenkins began her career as a prosecutor in the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office where she worked her way up the ranks. Jenkins served as an Assistant DA from 2014 to 2021, initially serving in the Misdemeanor and General Felonies Units before working as the office’s designated Hate Crimes Prosecutor. She was later promoted to the Sexual Assault Unit and eventually the Homicide Unit. Jenkins resigned from the San Francisco DA’s Office in October 2021 as a result of mounting dissatisfaction with the direction of the office. At the time of her departure, she prosecuted over 25 criminal jury trials and completed more than 100 preliminary hearings.

District Attorney Jenkins is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School. She received her undergraduate degree from U.C. Berkeley in 2003, where she was a member of the Track and Field Team.