Marie Gilmore ’86 has begun her first term as mayor of Alameda, Calif. Alameda’s first African American woman city council member, Gilmore has held leadership positions there for more than 15 years. Gilmore, the daughter of immigrant parents from the Caribbean island of Dominica, chaired Alameda’s Recreation Commission and led the Alameda Planning Board. A former litigation attorney who practiced labor and employment law in San Francisco, Gilmore won the mayoral election by 13 percent over the first runner-up. She is married to Berkeley Law classmate Rod Gilmore ’86, a business attorney and college football sportscaster for ESPN.