Hon. James Gore

Serving his home county in the heart of California’s Wine Country for the last eight years, Supervisor James Gore has shown steadfast and innovative leadership through an unprecedented barrage of fires, floods, droughts and more. He has become a well-known champion of resiliency by engaging and empowering residents through recovery and rebuilding in the wake of wildfires. He led efforts to secure historic regional, state, and federal funding for emergency preparedness and infrastructure investments. He is also a key local and state leader on housing, homelessness, and behavioral health.

During the pandemic, Gore led the California State Association of Counties as President through the multitude of statewide prevention and response actions. Locally, he spearheaded the creation of Sonoma County’s Office of Equity to take on the disparate impacts of COVID on underserved communities.

Supervisor Gore began his public service life as a volunteer for the U.S. Peace Corps in Bolivia, where he helped communities build water management and agricultural systems. James resides in Healdsburg, California where he and his wife Elizabeth raise their children, Opal and Jacob.