About the Candidate
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Gail Lightfoot is a retired professional nurse living in Arroyo Grande, San Luis Obispo County. She received a Registered Nurse Diploma from Los Angeles County Hospital's School of Nursing's three year residence program in 1959. She is a widow, and has three children, six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Lightfoot became a Charter member of the Libertarian Party in January 1972, She has been active within the Libertarian Party of California since 1980. Lightfoot has served the LPC as a candidate for Representative in Congress four times (1986, 1988, 1990, and 1996), Secretary of State four times (1998, 2002, 2006, and 2018) and for U.S. Senate five times (2000, 2004, 2010, 2012, and 2016). Lightfoot has also served the LPC as State Secretary (1989), State Chair (1990, 1995-96), and Southern Vice Chair (1993-94). Lightfoot signed several ballot arguments and the Party's ballot description, in 1990 and 1996 as state Chair of the Libertarian Party of California and in 1998 and 2000 as a candidate for statewide office. In 1990 Lightfoot represented the LPC in Lightfoot Vs March Fong Eu, a lawsuit regarding nominating candidates by convention and caucus. Lightfoot along with other individuals and four political parties asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Prop 198, the Open (Blanket) Primary. Quotes from Lightfoot's testimony are contained within the text of the District Court judge's decision and his footnotes to the decision. Lightfoot was very pleased to see the U.S. Supreme Court rule in favor of the plaintiffs ending the Blanket Primary in California. Lightfoot considers sitting in the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the oral arguments in the case April 24, 2000 her most memorable experience. |