DENNIS J. HERRERA, State Bar #139669 1 City Attorney JESSE C. SMITH, State Bar #122517 2 Chief Assistant City Attorney SHERRI SOKELAND KAISER, State Bar #197986 3 PETER J. KEITH, State Bar #206482 Deputy City Attorneys 4 1390 Market Street, Suite 700 San Francisco, California 94102-5408 5 Telephone: (415) 554-3886 (Kaiser) Telephone: (415) 554-3908 (Keith) 6 Facsimile: (415) 554-6747 E-Mail:
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[email protected] 8 Attorneys for MAYOR EDWIN M. LEE 9 ETHICS COMMISSION 10 CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO 11 12 13 In the Matter of Charges Against EXPERT DECLARATION OF NANCY K. D. LEMON 14 ROSS MIRKARIMI, 15 Sheriff, City and County of San Francisco. 16 17 I, NANCY K. D. LEMON, declare as follows: 18 1. I am an expert in domestic violence. I have focused on the issue of domestic 19 violence during my entire professional career. I was awarded a B.A. in Women’s Studies from the 20 University of California at Santa Cruz in 1975 and a J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law, 21 University of California at Berkeley in 1980. Starting in 1981, I worked at several agencies 22 offering legal assistance to survivors of domestic violence. Through my work, I have come into 23 contact with thousands of such victims as well as with about a dozen perpetrators and reformed 24 perpetrators of abuse. 25 2. In 1988, I started teaching Domestic Violence Law at Boalt, and in 1990, I started 26 directing the Domestic Violence Practicum there.