Valerie K. Brown (born October 30, 1954) is an American politician who served as a member of the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors from 2002 to 2012.
[2] Brown was first elected to the State Assembly in 1992, after Bev Hansen declined to run for re-election as the 1990 re-districting had made the district significantly more Democratic.
Brown did not run for the Senate, leaving the nomination to California Integrated Waste Management Board member and former Humboldt County Supervisor Wesley Chesbro.
After Mike Cale, who had served on the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors for 10 years, resigned in 2001, Brown was appointed to his place by Governor Gray Davis.
In 2015, Brown sold her home in Kenwood, California and returned to her hometown of Columbia, Missouri, where she works as an independent government affairs consultant.