{"id":33819,"date":"2022-07-15T19:28:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T19:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/15\/san-francisco-da-brooke-jenkins-picks-an-all-female-top-staff\/"},"modified":"2022-07-15T19:28:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T19:28:22","slug":"san-francisco-da-brooke-jenkins-picks-an-all-female-top-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/15\/san-francisco-da-brooke-jenkins-picks-an-all-female-top-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins picks an all-female top staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In among her first significant moves as San Francisco\u2019s district attorney, Brooke Jenkins on Friday began a massive overhaul of her office\u2019s personnel, firing several employees and announcing the posts of four new lieutenants who will help lead her management and transition teams.<\/p>\n

The shake-up comes a week after Jenkins was sworn in as the city\u2019s new top prosecutor \u2014 the culmination of an historic recall of her former boss, Chesa Boudin, in which she played a major role.<\/p>\n

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Jenkins\u2019 new top hires, Ana Gonzalez, Nancy Tung, Tiffany Sutton and Rani Singh, have all spent several years as prosecutors in the Bay Area, and some of them sparred publicly with Boudin in the past.<\/p>\n

\u201cI promised the public that I would restore accountability and consequences to the criminal justice system while advancing smart reforms responsibly,\u201d Jenkins said in a statement about her new hires.<\/p>\n

Rachel Marshall, Boudin\u2019s director of communications and a policy adviser, was among the first to be fired. Marshall, a Stanford Law graduate who worked for nearly a decade as a public defender, said she joined Boudin\u2019s team to fight for criminal justice reform.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat battle has never felt more urgent,\u201d Marshall said in a statement to The Chronicle. \u201cThere is no question that D.A. Jenkins\u2019 approach differs dramatically from my values. My passion for the mission to reform our legal system is stronger than ever and I am eager for the next opportunity to effect change.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arcelia Hurtado, a chief attorney who oversaw the office\u2019s post-conviction unit along with diversity efforts and training, said she wasn\u2019t surprised to be terminated, but she was disappointed. Hurtado said Jenkins told staffers she wouldn\u2019t be firing line prosecutors solely because they were hired by Boudin, and that she would be meeting with all of the managers individually to assess whether they were a good fit for her team. Those meetings, Hurtado said, never took place.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was hopeful that she would be true to her word … and this seems to be a complete political massacre at this point,\u201d Hurtado said. \u201cShe lined us up, essentially, one by one today, 15-minute phone calls, and fired us all without cause, and would not state any reason for why we were fired.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hurtado, who was the highest-ranking queer woman of color in the office, said at least five or six other women, including women of color, who have been fired or appear to be on the chopping block.<\/p>\n

Marshall, who said she was informed Thursday that the call with Jenkins would take place, , said 14 of her coworkers were scheduled similar meetings with Jenkins. They were expected to include Boudin\u2019s high-ranking advisers, as well as prosecutors, investigators and other staff members whose work included city corruption probes, the prosecution of police, the re-sentencing of people found to be innocent or given excessively long sentences, and data transparency.<\/p>\n

Jenkins said her new management team, \u201cwhich will include the addition of three women of color, with decades of prosecutorial experience at the highest levels, will help our office deliver on that promise. I have full faith and confidence that these women will promote and protect public safety while delivering justice in all of its various forms.\u201d<\/p>\n

The second-in-command position in the DA\u2019s office will go to Gonzalez, a former San Francisco assistant district attorney who led the office\u2019s gang unit until she \u2014 along with six others \u2014 was fired by Boudin after he took office<\/a> in January 2020. Gonzalez will serve as Jenkins\u2019 chief assistant, meaning that she will be the office\u2019s lead managing attorney.<\/p>\n

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Tung, an Alameda County Assistant District Attorney, will be the chief of special prosecutions, taking on sensitive cases that could range from domestic violence to police misconduct to fraud. She will also serve as the lead liaison for the the office\u2019s community partnerships across San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Like Jenkins and Gonzales, Tung also has a history of conflict with Boudin. She ran against him for District Attorney in 2019, coming in third in the city\u2019s ranked-choice voting contest and was cast as the candidate most in favor of stricter penalties for people accused of crimes.<\/p>\n

Tung also publicly supported Boudin\u2019s recall, and was rumored to be Breed\u2019s second-choice pick for District Attorney. This year, prior to Boudin\u2019s recall, Tung told the San Francisco NAACP<\/a> that she would seek the office again if Boudin was ousted.<\/p>\n

Sutton, currently the director of the crime strategies division at the San Francisco Police Department, was given a chief position, but her specific role was not immediately released. Sutton is also a veteran of the San Francisco District Attorney\u2019s Office, having spent 12 years there as an assistant district attorney after being hired by Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n

At the police department, Sutton oversees the \u201cleadership and management of the crime analytics team and analyzing SFPD\u2019s crime and community strategies,\u201d according to her bio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Leading the office\u2019s transition team will be Singh, who spent 22 years as a San Francisco district attorney before taking a position as assistant chief legal counsel for the San Francisco Sheriff\u2019s Office earlier this year, according to her LinkedIn bio<\/a>. While at the District Attorney\u2019s Office, Singh served as a managing attorney for the misdemeanor trial unit, the collaborative court and mental health unit and the domestic violence unit.<\/p>\n