{"id":256211,"date":"2026-04-07T19:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/256211\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T19:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:48:14","slug":"s-f-supervisor-fielder-will-take-leave-of-absence-through-june-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/256211\/","title":{"rendered":"S.F. supervisor Fielder will take leave of absence through June 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mission District supervisor Jackie Fielder will be absent from City Hall through at least the end of June, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/newspack-missionlocal.s3.amazonaws.com\/mission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Fielder-Memo-Excused-Absences-4.7.26.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">letter<\/a> she sent to the Board of Supervisors clerk on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor personal reasons, I am respectfully requesting that I be excused from the Board of Supervisors meetings between April 7 and June 30, 2026,\u201d Fielder wrote to the clerk and Board President Rafael Mandelman.<\/p>\n<p>Fielder requested to be excused from her board positions as chair of two committees, but asked \u201cto continue to serve as the Chair of both committees upon my return.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fielder has been absent from board meetings since mid-March and checked herself into a hospital for mental health reasons that month. She <a href=\"https:\/\/missionlocal.org\/2026\/03\/sf-jackie-fielder-resignation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told Mission Local she would resign<\/a> on March 27, but two days later her staff issued a statement saying she would <a href=\"https:\/\/missionlocal.org\/2026\/03\/sf-jackie-fielder-return-to-office-resignation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stay on and seek an extended leave of absence<\/a> instead.<\/p>\n<p>District 9 community leaders <a href=\"https:\/\/missionlocal.org\/2026\/03\/sf-jackie-fielder-district-9-resignation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rallied around her<\/a> and urged her to stay in office, and she received statements of support from her board colleagues and Mayor Daniel Lurie.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco supervisors can take indefinite leave. The city charter makes it extremely difficult to remove sitting supervisors from office \u2014 they must be found guilty of \u201cofficial misconduct\u201d in a trial by three-fourths of their board colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/missionlocal.org\/author\/joer\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A man with dark hair and glasses, wearing a white shirt, sits on grass in a park on a sunny day, smiling at the camera.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cropped-joerb3-edit-scaled-1.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-120 photo\" height=\"120\" width=\"120\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/missionlocal.org\/author\/joer\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Joe Rivano Barros\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mission District supervisor Jackie Fielder will be absent from City Hall through at least the end of June,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[13133,1556,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-256211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-jackie-fielder","9":"tag-mission","10":"tag-san-francisco","11":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","12":"tag-san-francisco-news","13":"tag-sf","14":"tag-sf-headlines","15":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}