Sophie Maxwell

Sophie Maxwell was a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, representing District 10.

Maxwell has lived in the Bayview district in San Francisco, California for the last twenty years.

Sophie Maxwell is the daughter of Enola Maxwell who was an activist and a Potrero Hill Neighborhood House executive director. Maxwell also had a son named Rama who died of Hodgkin's lymphoma at the age of 30.

Maxwell was first elected to the Board in 2000, when, as a result of the shift from at-large to district elections, she served a transitional two-year term. She was re-elected for four-year terms in November 2002 and November 2006. Her work seems to revolve around issues such as:

• environmental justice
• clean energy
• equitable distribution of public resources