Shirley Ann Dean (Bryant) was the mayor of the U.S. city of Berkeley, California, from 1994 to 2002. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in Social Welfare in 1956. Shirley Dean was considered a moderate politician in a notoriously liberal city. During most of her two-term tenure as Mayor, she presided over a divided City Council that had a 5-4 progressive majority. Wikipedia
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From the pubDate issue of Berkeleyan, the faculty staff newspaper of the University of California, Berkeley. Berkvolume, Berknum. www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/1998/1209/dean.html