Dianne Feinstein is an American politician who has been the senior United States senator from California since 1992.

She served as the Democratic Party’s Mayor of San Francisco and her tenure was from 1978 to 1988.

Feinstein, who was born in San Francisco, graduated from Stanford University in 1955. She worked in local government in San Francisco in the 1960s.

She was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and during her tenure as the board’s first female president, Dan White’s assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk drew national attention.

Feinstein succeeded Moscone as mayor, becoming the city’s first female mayor.

During her tenure, she oversaw the 1984 Democratic National Convention and oversaw the renovation of the city’s cable car system.

Despite a failed recall attempt in 1983, Feinstein was a popular mayor who was named the most effective mayor in the country in 1987 by City & State.

Dianne Feinstein’s Husband, Bertram Feinstein

Feinstein married her second husband, neurosurgeon Bertram Feinstein, in 1962, shortly after beginning her political career.

Bertram Feinstein Death

The marriage between Bertram Feinstein and Dianne lasted for 16 years as it was cut short by death. Bertram died of colon cancer in 1978. Dianne remarried in 1980 and her third husband was in the person of the renowned investment banker Richard C. Blum

Dianne Feinstein Health

In January 2017, Feinstein had an artificial cardiac pacemaker implanted at George Washington University Hospital.

Following the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett in the fall of 2020, there was concern about Feinstein’s ability to continue performing her duties.

She stated that she had no reason to be concerned and that she had no plans to leave the Senate.

Dianne Feinstein Awards & Honors

On June 4, 1977, Feinstein received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Golden Gate University in San Francisco.

France awarded her the Legion of Honour in 1984. On November 3, 2001, in Los Angeles, Feinstein received the Woodrow Wilson Award for public service from the Smithsonian Institution’s Woodrow Wilson Center.

Additionally, she also received the American Medical Association’s Nathan Davis Award for “the Betterment of Public Health” in 2002. In 2015, she was named one of The Forward 50.

Dianne Feinstein’s presidential political activities

Feinstein served on President Jimmy Carter’s steering committee in California and as a Carter delegate to the Democratic National Convention during the 1980 presidential election.

She was chosen as one of the four chairs of the Democratic National Convention in 1980.

During the 1984 presidential election, Feinstein supported former Vice President Walter Mondale.

In 1983, she and Democratic National Committee chairman Charles Manatt signed an agreement that designated San Francisco as the site of the 1984 Democratic National Convention.

Dianne Feinstein’s ancestry

Her maternal grandparents who were known as the Rosenbergs were Russians from Saint Petersburg.

Despite their German-Jewish ancestry, they practiced the Russian Orthodox (Christian) faith, as Jews in Saint Petersburg were required to do.

Feinstein’s mother insisted on her transfer from a Jewish day school to a prestigious local Catholic school, but Feinstein’s religion is listed as Judaism.

She earned a Bachelor of Arts in history from Stanford University in 1955 after graduating from Convent of the Sacred Heart High School in 1951.

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