A federal building in San Francisco may soon be renamed for Dianne Feinstein, California’s first female senator and the longest-serving woman senator in U.S. history.
U.S. Sens. Alex Padilla and Laphonza Butler, both D-California, introduced a bill Tuesday to rename the federal office building located at 50 United Nations Plaza the “Senator Dianne Feinstein Federal Building.”
“Senator Feinstein worked tirelessly for the people of California,” said Butler in a statement released by Padilla’s office. “Renaming the 50 United Nations Plaza federal building in her name honors the extraordinary legacy she left behind.”
The renaming would honor Feinstein, whose death last September at the age of 90 brought her nearly 31-year congressional tenure to a close. In addition to being a senator, Feinstein was San Francisco’s first woman mayor and first woman to serve as president of the city’s Board of Supervisors.
In January, the San Francisco Airport Commission also voted to rename the San Francisco International Airport’s international terminal after Feinstein. An elementary school in San Francisco already bears her name.
The building at 50 United Nations Plaza is adjacent to UN Plaza in the city’s Civic Center neighborhood and is a couple of blocks away from San Francisco City Hall, as well as being close to the two most well-known federal buildings in San Francisco, the Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse on Golden Gate Avenue and the Speaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building on Seventh Street.
It houses the U.S. General Services Administration’s regional headquarters for the Pacific Rim region and was built in 1936.
Mayor London Breed praised the move in the statement released by Padilla.
“Dianne Feinstein was a trailblazer, who dedicated her life to public service, fiercely believed in and fought for democratic values, and shattered glass ceilings,” Breed said. “While she was deeply committed to serving our state and country, San Francisco is where she was born and raised, and where her career began. Naming this building after her will ensure that her memory lives on forevermore in the city that she loved and called home.”
