Candidate for
Member of the State Assembly; District 15

Pamela Y. Price was born in Dayton, Ohio and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. She graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Political Science in 1978. While at Yale, she spent her Junior Year Abroad at the University of Dar-es-Salaam in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, East Africa.

In 1977, Price joined the landmark case of Alexander (Price) v. Yale, 459 F.Supp. 1 (D.Conn. 1979), 631 F.2d 178 (2nd Cir. 1980), the first sexual harassment case brought under Title IX. The case established for the first time that sexual harassment in education is illegal discrimination. After the Court dismissed the five other plaintiffs, Price was the only plaintiff to proceed to trial in January 1979, in the U.S. District Court in New Haven. In June 2012, upon the 40th Anniversary of Title IX, Price and her co-plaintiffs in Alexander v. Yale were honored as one of the Nine Most Influential Actors in Title IX History by the national American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

Price attended Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, where she earned her J.D. and a Master's degree in Jurisprudence & Social Policy in 1982. She started her career as a Community Defender in Bayview Hunter's Point in San Francisco. In June 1991, she founded the law firm of Price And Associates in Oakland. Her Firm represents victims of sex and race discrimination and regularly obtains large jury verdicts in difficult race and gender discrimination trials. Her victories at trial, large money judgments and settlements, and tenacity as a litigator have become legend in the Bay Area legal community.

In 2002, the Firm made legal history in Morgan v. Amtrak, 232 F.3d 1008 (9th Cir. 2000), 536 U.S. 101, 112 S.Ct. 1516 (2002), by winning the appeal of a defense verdict first in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal and then in the U.S. Supreme Court. Price successfully argued the case before the Supreme Court. In May 2004, the Firm obtained a jury verdict for $500,000 on behalf of Plaintiff Abner Morgan after ten (10) years of litigation and two (2) trials. For her groundbreaking efforts in Morgan, including her victory in the U.S. Supreme Court, Price was named the 2002 California Lawyer Attorney of the Year in Employment (CLAY Award). Price currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Board of Directors for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of San Francisco (LCCR).

Every year since 2004, Price has been named one of the top 5% of Northern California "Super Lawyers" by San Francisco Magazine. Price has received numerous awards including the Charles Houston Bar Association's Clinton W. White Advocacy Award (1993 and 2001), Gamma Phi Delta Sorority's Community Service Award - Excellence in Law, California Association of Equal Rights Professionals' Founders Award of Achievement (2003) and Arthur A. Fletcher Award of Achievement (2010), LCCR's Living the Dream Award (2009), Glad Tidings Church of God in Christ's Supporter of the Vision Award (2011), the National Bar Association's Heman Marion Sweatt Award (2011), the Hayward-South Alameda County NAACP Service Award for Social Justice (2012), Flyaway Productions' Ten Women Campaign Award and the Connecticut Women's Education and Legal Fund's Maria Miller Stewart Award.