House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi will not run for re-election

by Dan McMenamin, Bay City News November 7, 2025November 7, 2025

Speaker Nancy Pelosi participates in the SF Pride Parade on Market Street in San Francisco, Calif., on June 26, 2022. (Harika Maddala/Bay City News/CatchLight Local)

House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, announced Thursday that she will not run for re-election after serving in Congress for nearly 40 years.

Pelosi, 85, was the first woman elected by her peers to be speaker of the House of Representatives, a role she served from 2007-2011 and again from 2019-2023. She first joined Congress in 1987 and represents California’s 11th Congressional District, which covers most of San Francisco.

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Dan McMenamin, Bay City News

Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.

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