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Delaine Eastin, an impassioned and feisty advocate for public education and the first – and only — woman ever to serve as California’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, has died at the age of 76.

Eastin, a former legislator, served during the administrations of Govs. Pete Wilson and Gray Davis, from 1995 to 2003, but was blocked by term limits from seeking a third term. She ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2018 to succeed Jerry Brown, and three years later launched an unsuccessful campaign to head the California Democratic Party, when she came in second behind Rusty Hicks.

Over the years she has been a corporate planner, a professor at Mills College, a community college teacher, a leader of the movement to improve academic standards and testing, an advocate for better student nutrition, and a passionate devotee of libraries. She was honorary chair of voter-approved Proposition 10 of 1998, which set aside a portion of Delaine Eastin - Marquis Who's Who Milestones.