Bruce Ackerman
Candidate for City Clerk, Fairfax · Engineer
Bruce Ackerman is an engineer who studied chemistry, biology, physics, and electrical engineering at MIT after attending Baylor University. He co-founded a product-development company in Mountain View and moved to Fairfax in 1993. He has chaired Fairfax's General Plan Advisory Committee, founded and chaired the town's Climate Action Committee, served on the Planning Commission and the Marin Clean Energy Technical Committee, serves on the Marin/Sonoma Mosquito and Vector Control District board, and was elected to the Fairfax Town Council in 2017 and re-elected in 2020.
Positions in brief
No Town Clerk-specific 2026 platform was found; his public record centers on two decades of civic and environmental leadership in Fairfax.
Ackerman's public record spans two decades of Fairfax civic service, including chairing the General Plan Advisory Committee for ten years, founding and chairing the town's Climate Action Committee, serving on the Marin Clean Energy Technical Committee, and seven years on the Town Council. He describes his approach as favoring "thoughtfulness, creativity, effectiveness and transparency."
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