Katherine Feinstein: Who is Dianne Feinstein’s daughter?

Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein is an American politician who serves as the senior United States senator from California, a seat she has held since 1992.

A member of the Democratic Party, she was mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988.

Katherine Feinstein: Who is Dianne Feinstein’s daughter?

Katherine Anne Feinstein is an American attorney and jurist who has served as the presiding judge on the San Francisco County Superior Court from 2000 to 2012 and 2016 to the present.

She was born Katherine Berman on July 31, 1957, in San Francisco, California.

Katherine is the only biological child of United States Senator Dianne Feinstein and her first husband Judge Jack K. Berman.

After her mother’s marriage to Bertram Feinstein in 1962, she took his last name.

Katherine graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1980 and Hastings Law School in 1984.

After working as a law clerk for the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, she served as a prosecutor and worked as a lawyer representing police officers accused of wrongdoing.

She later took a job with the San Francisco city attorney’s office where she represented children in abuse and custody cases.

In 2000, California Governor Gray Davis appointed her to the San Francisco Superior Court and in 2012, she announced her retirement from the court as a presiding judge.

Amid her career, Feinstein founded several initiatives including Squires, a “scared straight” program that matched juvenile delinquents with convicts serving life sentences at San Quentin State Prison; and a program that jailed drunks who skip their court dates unless they enter a treatment program.

In 2016, she was named by California Governor Jerry Brown to the Medical Board of California and was once again named presiding judge of the San Francisco Superior Court, that same year. The court is composed of 52 judges and twelve commissioners.

Katherine is married to Rick Mariano. They have one child, Eileen Feinstein Mariano. Eileen was chosen as an Electoral College member for the 2016 United States presidential election.