Dianne Feinstein, the longest-serving woman senator in U.S. history, lies in state Wednesday in the building where her political career began. San Francisco’s City Hall was adorned with flags and flowers as Feinstein’s casket arrived to be greeted by San Francisco service members on horseback.

Feinstein, the first woman mayor of San Francisco and the first woman president of the city’s Board of Supervisors, died last week at the age of 90 in her home in Washington, D.C.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.