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Michela Alioto-Pier (born 1968) served as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. She represented District 2, encompassing the Marina and Pacific Heights neighborhoods. She previously served as a member of the San Francisco Port Commission. She was appointed to the Board of Supervisors by Gavin Newsom after he was elected mayor in 2003. Newsom himself was initially appointed to this seat by former mayor Willie Brown. Alioto-Pier is the granddaughter of former San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto, and former San Francisco Port Commissioner and former SF Supervisor Michael J. Driscoll, Sr., and the niece of Angela Alioto, former President of the SF Board of Supervisors. She is the most recent member of the Alioto family to hold an elected political office in San Francisco. ==Biography== Alioto-Pier was born in San Francisco. She is the eldest of four children; she has two younger brothers and a sister. She was raised in the Catholic Church and played the harp as a child. In 1981, at age thirteen, she was paralyzed from the waist down when she fell from a ski-lift in the Lake Tahoe area. When she was 17, President Ronald Reagan appointed her to the President's National Council on Disabilities Advisory Board. She also served as a delegate to the U.S.-Japan Summit Conference on Disabilities. She later received a degree in anthropology from UCLA. She is married to attorney Thomas Pier and has three children. She uses a self-powered wheelchair and drives a Jeep equipped with a hand brake and accelerator. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michela Alioto-Pier」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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