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	==External links==		==External links==
	~~{{Portal\|San Francisco Bay Area}}~~
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	*{{Commons category-inline\|District Attorneys of San Francisco}}		*{{Commons category-inline\|District Attorneys of San Francisco}}

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The '''San Francisco District Attorney's Office''' is the legal agency charged with prosecuting crimes in the City and County of [[San Francisco]], [[California]].

The current district attorney is [[Chesa Boudin]].<ref name="BoudinJan2020">{{cite web |last1=Sernoffsky |first1=Evan |title=New SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin fires several prosecutors |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/New-SF-District-Attorney-fires-multiple-14966620.php |website=sfchronicle.com |publisher=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=13 January 2020 |date=10 January 2020}}</ref>

==History==
After the [[Consolidation Act of 1856]] consolidated San Francisco as a city and a county, [[Henry H. Byrne]] was elected as the first District Attorney.<ref name="History">{{cite web |title=History of the San Francisco District Attorney's Office |publisher=City and County of San Francisco |url=http://www.sfdistrictattorney.org/history-san-francisco-district-attorneys-office |access-date=October 13, 2019 |archive-date=October 13, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191013195114/http://www.sfdistrictattorney.org/history-san-francisco-district-attorneys-office |url-status=dead }}</ref> Twenty-seven people have held the title since Byrne, including Boudin.<ref name="History"/>

Former District Attorney [[Kamala Harris]] later became [[Attorney General of California]] in 2011, [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] in 2017, and was elected the first female [[Vice President of the United States]] in 2020.

===George Gascón (2011–2019)===
On January 9, 2011, [[Mayor of San Francisco|Mayor]] [[Gavin Newsom]] appointed [[San Francisco Police Department|SFPD]] Chief George Gascón as district attorney to succeed [[Kamala Harris]], who had been elected [[California attorney general]] in [[2010 California Attorney General election|November 2010]]. Gascón was subsequently elected in his own right in [[November 2011 San Francisco general election|November 2011]]. On October 2, 2018, Gascón announced that he would not seek re-election, citing his mother's health.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sernoffsky |first1=Evan |title=SF District Attorney George Gascón decides not to seek re-election |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-District-Attorney-George-Gasc-n-13276393.php |website=sfchronicle.com |publisher=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=13 October 2019 |date=2 October 2019}}</ref> On October 3, 2019, Gascón announced that he would resign as district attorney on October 18 in order to explore a run for [[Los Angeles district attorney]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lagos |first1=Marisa |title=San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon Resigns |url=https://www.kqed.org/news/11778096/san-francisco-district-attorney-george-gascon-resigns |access-date=4 October 2019 |publisher=KQED |date=3 October 2019}}</ref>

===2019 district attorney election===
{{Main|2019 San Francisco District Attorney election}}
After Gascón announced in 2018 that he would not seek re-election, San Francisco anticipated its first open race for district attorney since 1909,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Redmond |first1=Tim |title=Gascon will step down — but who will step up? |url=https://48hills.org/2018/10/gascon-will-step-down-but-who-will-step-up/ |website=48hills.org |publisher=San Francisco Progressive Media Center |access-date=13 October 2019 |date=3 October 2018}}</ref> with candidates [[Chesa Boudin]], Leif Dautch, [[Suzy Loftus]], and Nancy Tung entering the race.<ref name="election2019">{{cite web |last1=Wolffe |first1=Kate |last2=Green |first2=Matthew |title=S.F. Mayor Breed Picks Suzy Loftus as Interim DA to Replace Gascón, One Month Before Election |url=https://www.kqed.org/news/11778248/s-f-mayor-breed-picks-suzy-loftus-as-interim-da-to-replace-gascon-one-month-before-election |website=kqed.org |publisher=KQED |access-date=13 October 2019 |date=4 October 2019}}</ref> After Gascón announced his resignation in October 2019 prior to the November 2019 election, [[Mayor of San Francisco|Mayor]] [[London Breed]] appointed candidate Suzy Loftus as interim district attorney, whom Breed had endorsed in the November 2019 election.<ref name="election2019"/> Loftus served as interim district attorney from October 19, 2019 until January 8, 2020, when winning candidate Boudin took office.<ref name="election2019"/><ref name="Loftus">{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/loftus-sworn-in-as-interim-district-attorney/|title=Suzy Loftus sworn in as interim district attorney|date=October 19, 2019|website=The San Francisco Examiner}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Sernoffsky|first=Evan|url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Chesa-Boudin-reformer-public-defender-wins-14823166.php|title=Chesa Boudin, reformer public defender, wins election as San Francisco’s new DA|work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|date=November 9, 2019|access-date=November 10, 2019}}</ref>

===Chesa Boudin (2020–present)===
[[Chesa Boudin]] was sworn in as district attorney on January 8, 2020.<ref name="BoudinJan2020"/>

== List of San Francisco district attorneys ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! District attorney
! Tenure
|-
|{{sortname|Henry H.|Byrne}} ||1856
|-
|{{sortname|William K.|Osborn}} ||1857
|-
|{{sortname|Harvey S.|Brown}} ||1858–1861
|-
|{{sortname|Nathan|Porter}} ||1861–1868
|-
|{{sortname|Herry H.|Byrne}} ||1868–1872
|-
|{{sortname|Daniel J.|Murphy|dab=district attorney}} ||1872–1874
|-
|{{sortname|Thomas P.|Ryan|dab=district attorney}} ||1874–1876
|-
|{{sortname|Daniel J.|Murphy|dab=district attorney}} ||1876–1880
|-
|{{sortname|David L.|Smoot}} ||1880–1882
|-
|{{sortname|Leonidas E.|Pratt}} ||1882
|-
|{{sortname|Jeremiah D.|Sullivan}} ||1883–1885
|-
|{{sortname|John N.|Wilson}} ||1885–1887
|-
|{{sortname|Edward B.|Stonehill}} ||1887–1889
|-
|{{sortname|James D.|Page}} ||1889–1891
|-
|{{sortname|William S.|Barnes}} ||1891–1898
|-
|{{sortname|Daniel J.|Murphy|dab=district attorney}} ||1899–1900
|-
|{{Anchor|Lewis Francis Byington}}{{sortname|Lewis Francis|Byington}} ||1900–1905
|-
|{{sortname|William H.|Langdon}} ||1906–1910
|-
|{{sortname|Charles|Fickert}} ||1910–1919
|-
|{{sortname|Matthew|Brady|dab=district attorney}} ||1920–1943
|-
|{{sortname|Pat|Brown}} ||1943–1951
|-
|{{sortname|Thomas C.|Lynch}} ||1951–1964
|-
|{{sortname|John J.|Ferdon}} ||1964–1976
|-
|{{sortname|Joseph|Freitas Jr.}} ||1976–1980
|-
|{{sortname|Arlo|Smith}} ||1980–1996
|-
|{{sortname|Terence|Hallinan}} ||1996–2004
|-
|{{sortname|Kamala|Harris}} ||2004–2011
|-
|{{sortname|George|Gascón}} ||2011–2019
|-
|''{{sortname|Suzy|Loftus}} (interim)'' ||2019–2020
|-
|{{sortname|Chesa|Boudin}} || 2020–present
|-
| colspan="2" style="font-size:8pt; text-align:center;"|'''Reference:'''<ref name="History"/>
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
{{Portal|San Francisco Bay Area}}
*{{Official website}}
*{{Commons category-inline|District Attorneys of San Francisco}}

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[[Category:District attorneys in California| ]]
[[Category:Government of San Francisco|District Attorney]]
[[Category:Lawyers from San Francisco]]
[[Category:Crime in San Francisco]]
[[Category:Law enforcement in the San Francisco Bay Area]]

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