Michael Kelly

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I am that rarest of creatures – a San Francisco native. Born, raised, stayed and still here in the City by the Bay. When I was born, my Dad was a toll collector on the Bay Bridge and my mom was a 3rd grade teacher. I watched the Giants lose to the Dodgers on black and white TV most of my childhood. Not surprisingly, I hate the Dodgers - especially Dodger greats like Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, Maury Wills, Don Sutton, Ron Cey, Steve Garvey, Orel Hershiser, Tommy Lasorda and Mike Piazza. On the other hand, I worshipped Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, Juan Marichal, Gaylord Perry and of course Barry Bonds. I never knew any lawyers till I needed one at age 18. I had no desire to go to Vietnam so I became a straight-A student when I turned 18 to avoid being drafted. I met my wife in high school. We got married when I was 21 and she was 20, four weeks after I graduated from college at St. Mary’s in Moraga, where the Christian Brothers paid my way. I started law school 5 weeks later. Our two oldest kids were born during the first and third years of law school. Two more kids arrived a few years later. After law school, I spent an inordinate amount of time working, teaching, learning to try cases and being the best advocate I could be for the people who needed me. I found time to coach boys and girls in the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grades in basketball for 20 plus years and do some volunteer work. I travelled to foreign countries to teach people how to be persuasive in trying cases. My kids grew up and found great partners. I met and learned lessons from great lawyers who became lifetime friends. I’m proud of all the people I have been able to help. I am sad, disgusted, and angered by the lawyers and law firms who violated their sworn oaths to uphold and defend the Constitution by capitulating to Donald Trump and his legion of sycophants. I learned to fish in the Sierra Nevada mountains when I was 7. I like trout fishing. I don’t do it enough but I am trying to do more of it. I like kids too, especially kids under 10, who are funny, simple, honest, hopeful and without cynicism. I’m a hopeless romantic and pray that in the end the good people win. And I hope when I get off this bus, people will think that I have left this place better than I found it.