Shirley Melnicoe, as the At-Large Member, resides in San Mateo. She formerly served as the first Reentry Coordinator for San Mateo County as well as Executive Director of the Northern California Service League, which worked with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals. As a Social Scientist at the U.S. Dept. of Justice, she directed police research on best practices and lectured at the FBI Academy on Police Use of Deadly Force. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Criminology from U.C. Berkeley and a Master’s in Public Administration from the University of Southern California.
