Her career was filled with firsts: first woman mayor of SF and one of the first women elected to the U.S. Senate from California.Senator Dianne Feinstein has died, ABC7 Insider Phil Matier has confirmed. The former mayor of San Francisco is remembered as "a legend" and an "icon for women in politics."Senator Dianne Feinstein has died at 90 years old, ABC7 Insider Phil Matier has confirmed. Her career was one of many firsts.
Feinstein went on to study at Stanford University where she graduated in 1955 and was later married three times.In 1962, she married her second husband, Bertram Feinstein, who died in 1978 of colon cancer, just months before Feinstein became San Francisco mayor. "I remember that I was trying to get a house here in San Francisco, when they wouldn't allow Black people easily to get houses," he said. "And there was a demonstration and this angular tall, great looking white woman pushing a baby stroller with a little kid in it, who nobody knew anything about, came out to participate in the protest. That was Dianne Feinstein! And it was that long ago, and so I am a great admirer.
Under her watch, the city's health department created the global standard for AIDS healthcare at San Francisco General Hospital. In 1990, Feinstein set her sights on a higher office, running for California governor. She lost to Republican Pete Wilson, but still made history again as the first woman in the state to win a major party's gubernatorial nomination. Then, in 1992, there was a turning point.
Brown adds, "Dianne Feinstein is the only member of Congress either on the Congressional side or on the Senate side who's ever been able to get a controlled weapons ban signed into law. Dianne got that." Reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, to protect women from domestic violence and sexual assaultIn an interview with CSPAN she said, "Simply put, Americans should be free to marry the person they love regardless of sexual orientation or race."Some of the worst came in 2018, after she initially declined to make public a letter from Bay Area professor Christine Blasey Ford during the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Justice Brett Kavanagh.
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