Mission District supervisor Jackie Fielder will be absent from City Hall through at least the end of June, according to a letter she sent to the Board of Supervisors clerk on Tuesday.
“For personal reasons, I am respectfully requesting that I be excused from the Board of Supervisors meetings between April 7 and June 30, 2026,” Fielder wrote to the clerk and Board President Rafael Mandelman.
Fielder requested to be excused from her board positions as chair of two committees, but asked “to continue to serve as the Chair of both committees upon my return.”
Fielder has been absent from board meetings since mid-March and checked herself into a hospital for mental health reasons that month. She told Mission Local she would resign on March 27, but two days later her staff issued a statement saying she would stay on and seek an extended leave of absence instead.
District 9 community leaders rallied around her and urged her to stay in office, and she received statements of support from her board colleagues and Mayor Daniel Lurie.
San Francisco supervisors can take indefinite leave. The city charter makes it extremely difficult to remove sitting supervisors from office — they must be found guilty of “official misconduct” in a trial by three-fourths of their board colleagues.
Joe is senior editor at Mission Local. He is an award-winning journalist whose coverage focuses on politics, campaign finance, Silicon Valley, and criminal justice. He received a B.A. at Stanford University for political science in 2014. He was born in Sweden, grew up in Chile, and moved to Oakland when he was eight. You can reach him on Signal @jrivanob.99.