Background
Dufty is the son of writer William Dufty and Maely Bartholomew, who had lost most of her family in the Holocaust.
Dufty is the son of writer William Dufty and Maely Bartholomew, who had lost most of her family in the Holocaust.
Bachelor in Political Science and Journalism, University California, Berkeley.
Dufty was re-elected as Supervisor in 2006 and was termed out in 2011. Dufty was raised in Harlem, New York City where his mother befriended jazz musician Billie Holiday, who would later become his godmother. His voice can be heard on a recording made in the Dufty household where Holiday makes jokes about his red underpants.
After moving from Harlem to California at age 16, Dufty finished high school at Menlo-Atherton High School, just south of San Francisco.
Dufty graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a student body co-president and earned a degree in Political Science. Dufty served as Senior Legislative Assistant for Education in the office of New York Republican
Shirley Chisholm. Later, he served as Chief Legislative Aide to Republican
Julian Dixon, a post in which he helped craft legislation that created the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. In San Francisco, he worked for former Supervisor Susan Leal, served as a Senior Advisor for Mayor Willie Brown and as Director of Neighborhood Services.
A Democrat, Dufty was elected a supervisor from the city"s eighth district in 2002 before being re-elected in 2006. He served as Chair of the San Francisco County Transportation Authority, Chair of the City Operations & Neighborhood Services Committee as well as a Representative on the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District Board.
Active Friends of Noe Valley, Friends of Portola Park. Member of Upper Market & Castro Merchant Association, Mount Olympus Neighborhood Association, Glen Park Association, Eureka Valley Promotion Association, Duboce Triangle Neighborhood Association, Cole Valley Improvement Association, Buena Vista Neighborhood Association, San Francisco FrontRunners, Robert F Kennedy Democratic Club, Raoul Wallenberg Democratic Club, Alice B Toklas Democratic Club.