Hon. Quentin L. Kopp has been a California Superior Court Judge, a California State Senator, and a Supervisor of San Francisco City and County. He is the only non-incumbent to have been elected to the State Senate as an Independent since 1876 and was the first Independent State Senator re-elected to the State Senate in California’s history.

Kopp served in the US Air Force, in the Office of Special Investigations and the Judge Advocate General Corps. He was Chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and a member of the San Francisco Ethics Commission. He was president of both his local and statewide junior bar associations and a delegate to the American Bar Association House of Delegates. He is a longtime member and former Trustee of Congregation Beth-Israel Judea. He and his wife Mara Sikaters have three children.