Campbell — former U.S. Senator from Colorado Albert E. Carter — former U.S. Congressman David C. Casas — former mayor of Los Altos and Los Altos city council member Cindy Chavez — former member of San Jose City Council and former vice mayor of San Jose Judy Chirco — San José City councilmember, District 9 William Clark, Jr. — former U.S. Ambassador to India Michael Deaver — Deputy White House Chief of Staff for President Ronald Reagan Robert Doerr — former Mayor of San Jose, California (1956–1958) Paul Fong — California Assemblyman, 22nd district Robert "Bob" Foster — Mayor of Long Beach, California; former president, Southern California Edison; former CSU Trustee Mike Honda — U.S. Representative from California Lou Henry Hoover — former First Lady of the United States Johnny Khamis — Councilmember on the San Jose City Council Linda J. LeZotte — San Jose City councilmember, District 1 Evan Low — California State Assemblyman; member of California Legislative LGBTQ Caucus Gus Morrison — Mayor of Fremont, California (1985–1989; 1994–2004; since January 2012) Gaylord Nelson — former U.S. Senator; Governor of Wisconsin; founder of Earth Day Lyn Nofziger — White House advisor to presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan Robert Rivas — California State Assemblyman Ed Rollins — National Campaign Director for Reagan–Bush (1984) and Mike Huckabee (2007); regular guest political analyst on CNN (attended SJSU; graduated from CSU Chico)Jim Silva — California State Assemblyman; former mayor of Huntington Beach Laurie Smith — Sheriff, Santa Clara County; first female county sheriff in the history of the state of California Fernando Torres-Gil — first assistant secretary for aging at the Department of Health and Human Services in the Clinton Administration; associate dean of the School of Public Affairs at UCLA Joe Trippi — presidential campaign manager for Howard Dean (2004) Sim Tze Tzin — Malaysian politician Carole Ward Allen — former BART board director, District 4; former Oakland port commissioner Kent Wiedemann — former U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia Ken Yeager — politician, member of Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors Science and technology Barbara Bekins – hydrologist and National Academy of Engineering fellow Daniel W. Bradley — co-discoverer of Hepatitis C Sarah Clatterbuck — computer engineer Ray Dolby — engineer, founder of Dolby Laboratories (studied two years at SJSU; graduated from Stanford University)Dian Fossey — ethologist and gorilla expert Charles Ginsburg — engineer, inventor of the videocassette recorder; National Inventors Hall