Terence Faulkner
12th Assembly District Member
Past San Francisco Republican County Chairman (1987-1989) Terence Faulkner holds a doctorate from Lincoln University Law School (Juris Doctor – 1983) and is a former Articles Editor and writer for the Lincoln Law Review. A member and officer of the San Francisco City Government’s Cable Television Task Force (1973-1976), Terence Faulkner was a co-author of the book Cable and the Community: A Report to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (1975).
A strong defender of the free speech endorsement rights of the San Francisco Republican Central Committee in the 1987 Mayor’s election, as GOP County Chairman Terence Faulkner was a major plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court case of Geary et al. vs. Renne et al. (for this case and Faulkner’s statement, see:1991 Supreme Court Reporter).
A 1973-1978 member of the Bay Area Regional Citizens Forum of the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG), advising on the distribution of Federal HUD & 701 funds, Terence Faulkner also was an active member of the US President Ronald Reagan’s Special Executive Awards Committee (1988), recommending for cash bonuses Federal employees who saved public money or did other exceptional services.
A 1999-2005 member of the California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Certified Farmers Market Advisory Board, the 1987-1989 State Secretary of the California Republican County Chairmen’s Association and a former member of the Executive Committee of the California Republican party, Terence Faulkner was 1967-1968 Northern California Vice-Chairman of the California Young Republican College Federation. He was awarded the National Newsletter Award of the Young Republican National Federation for "Collegiate YR" by National Chairman Tom Van Sickle in 1968.
An elected Board member of the Park Merced Residents Organization (2005 to date) and a life member of the United Irish Cultural Center (since 1972), Terence Faulkner is the great grandson of Irish Potato Famine refugee Thomas Faulkner (1832-1912), who became a US citizen in 1856 (New York Court of Common Pleas), voted for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and 1864, moved to San Francisco in 1866, and relocated his family in the Sunset District after he was burned out of his Perry Street home on April 18, 1906 (the first day of the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire).
Terence Faulkner can be contacted at telephone: (415) 678-7878. His e-mail is faulknerjd8@aol.com
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