Fiona Ma

Fiona Ma (simplified Chinese: 马世云; traditional Chinese: 馬世雲; pinyin: Mǎ Shìyún) (born March 4, 1967) is the California State Assembly Majority Whip and a San Francisco politician, and a former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Ma was born in New York to an immigrant engineer father and high school teacher mother . She received a bachelor's degree in accounting at Rochester Institute of Technology, a master’s degree in taxation fro... more

Fiona Ma (simplified Chinese: 马世云; traditional Chinese: 馬世雲; pinyin: Mǎ Shìyún) (born March 4, 1967) is the California State Assembly Majority Whip and a San Francisco politician, and a former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Ma was born in New York to an immigrant engineer father and high school teacher mother . She received a bachelor's degree in accounting at Rochester Institute of Technology, a master’s degree in taxation from Golden Gate University, and an MBA from Pepperdine University. Ma is a CPA. Ma was on the staff of former state Senate President John Burton as a part-time district representative. She was later elected to the San Francisco County Board of Supervisors from 2002 to 2006 representing District 4, the Sunset District. While serving on that board, her major legislative push was to shut down massage parlors who illegally trafficked persons into the country and used them to run illegal prostitution rings. Ma won the Democratic nomination to... less