Primary Job Title City Attorney Primary Organization 
City and County of San Francisco
Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Dennis Herrera is the elected City Attorney of San Francisco, perhaps best known for his longtime legal advocacy for same-sex marriage in California, including the In re Marriage Cases, 43 Cal.4th 757 (2008), and Hollingsworth v. Perry, 570. U.S. (2013), also known as the legal fight against Proposition 8. He was first elected as City Attorney in
2001 and re-elected without opposition in 2005 and 2009. He ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of San Francisco in the 2011 election, finishing third in the City's ranked-choice voting system.
