Which political offices have members of the Newsom and Getty families held in California?

1. Gavin Newsom — mayor, lieutenant governor, governor (and local appointments that launched a career)

Gavin Newsom’s political résumé is well documented in contemporary reporting: he was appointed to San Francisco’s Parking and Traffic Commission in 1996, then to the Board of Supervisors in 1997 and was first elected to that board in 1998; he was elected mayor of San Francisco in 2003 (serving two terms) and later was elected lieutenant governor of California in 2010 (reelected 2014) before winning the governorship in 2018 and again in 2022 ^[1].

2. Local appointments and the business-to-politics pathway that mattered

Newsom’s early public-service positions followed a business track — co-founding PlumpJack and cultivating ties to Bay Area elites — which the sources say helped finance and elevate his political bids, including the boost from family friends and investors such as Gordon Getty; those business ties are cited as background to his move from municipal appointee to mayor and then statewide officeholder ^{[1] [5] [3]}.

3. William Alfred Newsom III — judicial service in California’s courts

Gavin Newsom’s father, William Alfred Newsom III, is recorded in the sources as a longtime California jurist: he served on the Placer County Superior Court and was appointed to the California Court of Appeal (a state appeals court), reflecting the Newsom family’s judicial footprint in California ^{[6] [2]}.

4. Other Newsom-family political ties and extended networks

The reporting traces broader family and social networks — including intermarriage and long friendships among the Newsoms, Pelosis and other San Francisco political families — that have folded into California governance and influence over decades, but the specific offices cited in these sources center on Gavin Newsom’s elected roles and his father’s judicial appointments rather than additional elected Newsom relatives ^{[7] [2] [8]}.

5. The Getty family — donors, social allies, not documented officeholders in the provided reporting

The sources portray the Gettys as a powerful oil dynasty deeply enmeshed in California political life through donations, social ties and family friendships with leaders such as Newsom, Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi, and they document substantial financial support for Newsom’s campaigns from multiple Getty family members; however, within the materials provided there is no documentation identifying Getty family members as having held elected or appointed public office in California — their role in these reports is political influence and patronage rather than incumbency ^{[4] [3] [9]}.

6. Influence versus incumbency — why the distinction matters

Several pieces emphasize that the Gettys’ significance is political capital — campaign contributions, social patronage and long-standing friendships with officeholders — and opponents have tried to make that intertwining an electoral issue for Newsom; the reporting thus distinguishes between holding office (as Newsom and his father have done) and exercising political influence through wealth and relationships (as the Gettys have done) without stating that Gettys themselves held public office in California ^{[3] [4] [9]}.

7. Caveats, gaps and what the sources do not claim

The documentation supplied lists multiple Newsom offices and judicial appointments for William Newsom but does not catalog every relative or distant family member’s public role, nor does it present any Getty family member as an elected or appointed California official; if a reader requires a definitive, exhaustive roster of every branch member who may have held lesser local appointments, more targeted archival or official-state records searches would be necessary because the current reporting focuses on high-profile roles and political relationships ^{[1] [2] [3]}.