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San Francisco, San Mateo County, CA June 6, 2006 Election
Smart Voter Full Biography for Janet Reilly

Candidate for
Member of the State Assembly; District 12; Democratic Party

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About Democrat Janet Reilly

Janet Reilly was born and raised in California, the youngest of six children. She graduated from UCLA and then she received a Masters degree in journalism from Medill at Northwestern University in Chicago. Janet Reilly began her career as an anchorwoman-reporter for CBS-affiliate KGWN-TV in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Janet currently serves as a director on the Golden Gate Bridge Board. She is a former businesswoman and has an extensive background in the non-profit world. Janet serves on Mayor Gavin Newsom's Policy Council for Children, Youth and Families, but she considers her experience raising two daughters in San Francisco to be one of her most important qualifications for Assembly.

As a Bridge Board director, Janet Reilly knows we can do better when it comes to planning growth and investing in safe roads and great transit. Janet is also fighting to win our fair share of federal Homeland Security dollars. The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the top terrorist targets in the world and Janet is working with our delegation in Washington to make sure we have the resources we need to protect this magnificent and vital structure. She is fighting to save lives by installing a suicide barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge.

As a businesswoman, Janet demonstrated that she could help run an organization for the good of its customers and the entire community. As the manager of Public Relations for Mervyn's department stores, Janet created Mervyn's Community Closet. The Community Closet traveled throughout the country donating work-appropriate wardrobes to women making the transition from welfare to work. Thousands of people in more than one hundred cities have benefited from the Community Closet.

In the non-profit world, Janet has worked to forge the kind of strong coalitions that make an impact by giving back to our community. At Mt. St. Joseph's-St. Elizabeth's Epiphany Center for Families, Janet worked directly with drug-addicted babies to help provide for their care. As part of her longtime work with Shanti -- a non-profit that provides direct services and emotional support to individuals living with life-threatening illnesses -- Janet Reilly helped bring Shanti's volunteer model to the national level. Janet has been instrumental in supporting schools that serve low income families such as Sacred Heart School in the Western Addition. Through their leadership in Catholic Charities, Janet and Clint Reilly created the annual Loaves and Fishes dinner that helps fund 38 community programs in San Francisco and San Mateo Counties.

Janet Reilly lives in San Francisco with her husband Clint and her two girls, Jill, 7, and Ava, 5.

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