She was selected as a Distinguished Graduate in the Berkeley High School Hall of Fame[3] and was the first in her family to attend college.
[2] Her responsibilities included writing the plan and supervising field work for the recruitment of minority students to the UC Berkeley campus and visiting high schools throughout California.
[5] Under city law, that forced a runoff in December, which Dean won due to lower turnout in the college town.
She also stated she did not ask for non-public records and that upon the request of the college showed her California Driver License bearing her full name and address.
[8] For much of her career, Dean's political base was the very active network of Berkeley neighborhood organizations; however, many of her critics and rivals found her to be too conservative.
The day before the election Tom Bates stole 1,000 copies of The Daily Californian because the paper had endorsed Dean.
[19] In 1976, she was elected from a caucus in her congressional district as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in New York City pledged to Senator Frank Church.