Susan Golding

Susan Golding

Susan G. Golding (born August 1945) is an American Republican politician from California, best known as the former two-term mayor of San Diego. She is currently president and CEO of the Child Abuse Prevention Foundation in San Diego. and formerly president and CEO of the Golding Group, a strategy consulting firm and a Senior Fellow of Public Policy at the University of California at Los Angeles. She also serves on the boards and advisory committees of several organizations, including the Pacific Council on International Relations and the International Republican Institute.

Golding was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, but grew up in Lafayette and Indianapolis, Indiana. She earned a Bachelor's degree in Government and International Relations from Carleton College, and a Master's degree from Columbia University. Golding married Stanley D. Prowse, an attorney. They moved to Atlanta, where she was a college instructor at Emory University. In 1974 they moved to California and she was Associate Publisher of NewsPress, a community newspaper. After they divorced, Golding raised her two children, Samuel and Vanessa, as a single mother under her maiden name.

In 1984 Golding married Dick Silbermann, a financier and prominent Democrat. They divorced in 1991 after Silbermann was convicted of money laundering.

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