Career
Goldman was one of three children born to Walter A. and Elise Stern and an heiress to the Levi Strauss fortune. She is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. She served as president of the San Francisco Symphony, chairwoman of San Francisco"s Memorial to the Six Million Victims of the Holocaust, director of the Mount Zion Health System, president of the Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center, and president of Congregation Emanu-El, the city"s largest reform Jewish synagogue.