Rebecca Kaplan

Rebecca Kaplan
Member of the Oakland City Council At-large District
Incumbent
Assumed office January 6, 2009
Preceded by	Henry Chang, Jr.
Vice Mayor of Oakland
Incumbent
Assumed office January 19, 2021
Preceded by	Larry Reid
Member of the AC Transit Board of Directors
In office June 18, 2002 – December 17, 2008
Preceded by	Matt Williams
Succeeded by	Joel Young
Constituency	At-large
Personal details
Born	Rebecca Dawn Kaplan (1970-09-17) September 17, 1970 (age 53) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nationality	Canadian American
Political party	Democratic (since 2008)
Other political affiliations	Green (until 2008)
Spouse	Pamela Rosin ​ ​ (m. 2014; div. 2019)​
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS) Tufts University (MA) Stanford University (JD)
Website	Government website Campaign website

Rebecca Dawn Kaplan (born September 17, 1970) is a Canadian-born American attorney and politician who has served as an at-large member of the Oakland City Council since 2009. She is a member of the Democratic Party.

Born and raised in Ontario, Kaplan has degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts University, and Stanford University. She moved to Oakland in the 1990s, where she served as a legislative aide and housing rights attorney. After an unsuccessful run for Oakland City Council in 2000, Kaplan was appointed to and later elected to an at-large seat on the AC Transit Board of Directors in 2002.

Kaplan was elected to an at-large seat on the Oakland City Council in 2008. She was the youngest and first openly LGBTQ+ member of the Oakland City Council. She unsuccessfully ran for mayor in 2010 and 2014 and has served one stint as council president and two stints as vice mayor.

Kaplan is a candidate for the Alameda County Board of Supervisors to fill the seat of Wilma Chan.