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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Ronnie Gail Caplane |
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Piedmont, California , United States |
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| Info | Ronnie Caplane is a mother, a writer, an attorney, a Commissioner of the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board, an elected member of a local school board and a widow.
Ronnie’s leadership in education and work to improve the East Bay community led Assemblywoman Wilma Chan to name her Woman of the Year in 2004. Her commitment to public education and to restore California to its status as a national leader has led Caplane to pursue a run for the Assembly.
Caplane has been a member of the Piedmont School Board for almost eight years, two of which she served as president. Piedmont is one of the top performing school districts in the state and during her tenure, two sets of school parcel taxes have been overwhelming approved by voters.
Ronnie serves as Commissioner on the California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board where she reviews appeals from the 18 local workers’ compensation trial courts throughout the State. Every month the commission reviews and issues decisions on 300 to 350 cases.
Formerly a regular contributor to the Montclarion, the Piedmonter, and the Jewish Bulletin of Northern California (now known as J Weekly), Ronnie has published essays in newspapers throughout the country including the San Francisco Chronicle, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Chicago Tribune, the Detroit Free Press, the Recorder, Legal Times, and various Jewish publications. Her essays have also appeared in several anthologies.
Ronnie’s weekly column, “Under Construction,” which she wrote from 1997 until she announced her candidacy, had a large following. After her husband’s sudden death in 2003, Ronnie wrote a series of “grief columns” that drew an overwhelming response from readers.
Her late husband, Joe Remcho, was California’s premier Democratic attorney. As his sounding board, Ronnie became intimately familiar with a myriad of public policy issues ranging from equitable school funding to redistricting. On January 4, 2003, Joe died tragically in a helicopter accident. Nine months later, Ronnie returned to work full-time.
While raising her children, Ronnie volunteered thousands of hours for a myriad of community organizations including Oakland’s Temple Sinai, HEROS, the Henry Robinson Center and the Piedmont schools. She created a minority law school scholarship through the Bar Association of San Francisco in her husband’s honor.
Ronnie is on the board of the National Women’s Political Caucus and is a member of the Alameda County Bar Association and National Association of Women Judges. Past board memberships include California Women Lawyers and Oakland’s Temple Sinai.
Ronnie received her law degree from Hastings College of the Law and was admitted to the California Bar in 1975. As a practicing attorney in San Francisco, she handled issues such as workers’ compensation, employment discrimination and personal injury.
Ronnie has two adult children, Morgan and Sam.
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