The Byron Sher papers consists of office and bill files, public policy calendars and artifacts, faculty papers, district and campaign files, personal papers and effects, incoming and outgoing correspondence, photographs, audio cassettes and video tapes.

Byron Sher was a member of the California state senate, 1996-2004; a member of the California state assembly, 1980-1996; a Palo Alto city council member, 1965-1967 & 1973-1980. He was a professor of law at Stanford University. Sher also served as the California Senate Rules Committee appointee to the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, 2009-2012. Sher was widely regarded as the California State Legislature's leading environmentalist and one of its foremost experts on consumer protection and government ethics.

206 Linear Feet (161 record storage boxes, 8 manuscript storage boxes, and 1 flat box)

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