Damon Connolly: A Local Voice Standing for Progressive Values

With over two decades in public service, Damon Connolly has been a capable and effective leader who is thoughtful, dedicated, and focused on achieving important policy victories that improve the lives of the people he represents.

Damon has been fighting for the North Coast for 20 years, as a State Assemblymember representing Marin and Sonoma counties, Marin County Supervisor, Vice-Mayor of San Rafael, School Board President, and California Deputy Attorney General.

Throughout it all, Damon has worked to make life better throughout the North Coast. In 2024, he championed Proposition 4, the California Climate and Wildfire Prevention Bond, and helped author the bond’s wildfire chapter, securing $1.5 billion for wildfire and forest resilience. This work will directly help Northern California and our communities mitigate risk and better prepare for wildfires. Damon is also fighting to address the state’s insurance crisis by championing system reforms and authoring legislation to expand discounts available to California residents who are hardening their homes.

Damon understands that our Northern California communities share common goals, issues, and values. We need effective and experienced local voices at the State Capitol to ensure that we are heard and that our needs are met.

As Supervisor, he protected open spaces while increasing the availability of affordable housing; led the charge for countywide adoption of 100% renewable energy while keeping the County’s fiscal house in order; and spearheaded responses to homelessness while expanding access to public transit and infrastructure for bicyclists and pedestrians.

Prior to serving on the Board of Supervisors, Damon served as the Vice Mayor of San Rafael, a two-term San Rafael City Councilmember, and former School Board President. He was a founding board member of Marin Clean Energy (MCE) and served as Chair of the Board of Directors from June 2011 to November 2014.

Before opening his own law practice in San Rafael, Damon was a Supervising Deputy California Attorney General, prosecuting the energy companies that gouged our state during the energy crisis of 2000-2001.

Damon previously served as the President of the Workforce Alliance of the North Bay, as a Member of the Marin County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, Marin County Housing Authority, Marin County Open Space District, and Marin County’s representative on the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.

Damon is a Northern California native, attending college and law school at UC Berkeley. He has lived in San Rafael for the past twenty-seven years with his wife, Dawn and their two daughters.