Draft:Raul Campillo

Raul Armando Campillo (born October 4, 1987) is an American attorney and politician serving as a member of the San Diego City Council, representing District 7 in San Diego, California. He took office December 10, 2020. He is a Democrat, although city council positions are officially nonpartisan per state law.

District 7 spans roughly 158,600 residents in the neighborhoods of Allied Gardens, Del Cerro, Linda Vista, Mission Valley, San Carlos, Serra Mesa, Tierrasanta, and Lake Murray.

Early Life and Career
Campillo was born in San Diego and grew up in El Cajon, California. He graduated from University of San Diego High School. In 2009, Campillo earned his Bachelor's degree in Government from Harvard University, using his summers and extracurriculars to intern and volunteer with then-Senator Hillary Clinton’s primary campaign for president in New Hampshire, and then-Senator Barack Obama’s general election campaign. After graduation, Campillo joined Teach for America, teaching 5th grade at Gwendolyn Woolley Elementary School in the Clark County School District in the Las Vegas area. While teaching, Campillo was simultaneously enrolled in the Master's degree program at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, earning the degree at night.

After completing his two-year tenure with Teach for America, Campillo returned to Cambridge to attend Harvard Law School, where he earned his law degree. Campillo joined the international law firm O’Melveny & Myers in Los Angeles that fall. Campillo temporarily left the firm to join the 2016 Hillary for America campaign in the Brooklyn, New York headquarters, working in the operations department during the Primary and General Elections.

Campillo returned to O'Melveny & Myers after the campaign and moved home to San Diego to join the San Diego City Attorney’s office as a prosecutor in June 2018. There, he prosecuted drunk driving and some violent crimes, as well as facilitating nonviolent defendants into drug diversion programs. Additionally, he worked in San Diego’s flagship Gun Violence Restraining Order (GVRO) Unit, where he secured GVROs to take the firearms out of the hands of people who posed a danger to themselves and their communities. In August 2022, Campillo married Nadia Farjood, a fellow San Diego-raised attorney whom he met during his time at O'Melveny. Campillo and Farjood live in the Del Cerro neighborhood of San Diego.

San Diego City Council
Campillo ran for the District 7 Council seat in the 2020 election after incumbent Scott Sherman could not seek re-election due to term limits.

During his tenure, Campillo has focused on issues related to mental health care, child care, parental leave, public safety, and economic development in arts and culture. Campillo's first policy initiative was to develop a municipal Office of Child and Youth Success, which was included in the City of San Diego's Fiscal Year 2022 budget. Campillo also co-authored with fellow Councilmember Stephen Whitburn a successful ballot initiative that would allow the City of San Diego to utilize Project Labor Agreements on municipal construction projects. == Committee Assignments ==
 * Chair, Economic Development & Intergovernmental Relations Committee
 * Member, Public Safety Committee
 * Member, Rules Committee
 * Member, Community & Neighborhood Services Committee
 * Member, San Diego River Conservancy Board of Directors
 * Chair, Mission Trails Regional Park Task Force
 * Alternate Member, San Diego Association of Governments
 * Alternate Member, San Diego Metropolitan Transit System

Electoral History
Campillo was successful in his first campaign for public office, coming in first place in the four-way March 2020 blanket primary with 35% of the vote, advancing to the General Election against restauranteur, Republican Noli Zosa. Campillo defeated Zosa in the November 2020 General Election with 55% of the vote.