About Frank D. Russo - CA Progress Report's Founder
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In 2006, Frank D. Russo created The California Progress Report website. Frank D. Russo is an Oakland attorney who has been active in California politics for 40 years and has served as Chair of the Alameda County Democratic Party. He published the website from 2006 through 2008. Frank no longer has any connection to the California Progress Report.
He is currently serving as Assembly member Nancy Skinner’s Chief of Staff.
In the 1970’s and 80’s, he worked in the Capitol for Democratic legislators in prominent positions including serving as Legal Counsel to the Speaker of the Assembly. He led a statewide advocacy organization of over 1,000 attorneys in the 1990’s, and has testified on hundreds of bills, proposed regulations, and gubernatorial appointments. Over these years, many of the proposals he has drafted have become California law.
He has extensive relationships with statewide officeholders, candidates, organizations, and activists, as well as the media.
Mr. Russo graduated cum laude from Yale University with a degree in Political Science and from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law.