Nancy Nadel

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Nancy Nadel is a United States politician. She is a member of the Oakland, California City Council, representing District 3 (West Oakland, most of Downtown Oakland including the Lakeside Apartments District, Pill Hill, and Adams Point). She has been a West Oakland resident for 25 years. She ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of Oakland in 2006, placing 3d of 6 candidates.^[1]

Nancy chairs the Public Works Committee on the City Council. She is a member of the Association of Bay Area Governments Executive Committee, Regional Planning Committee, and chairs the Earthquake Hazards Outreach Review Committee.

Nancy has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Alfred University, a Bachelor of Science in Geology from SF State University and an MS from UC Berkeley in Engineering Geoscience. Prior to joining the council she worked as a teacher, an artist, a geophysicist, a small business owner and an environmental engineer with the US EPA. She has been published in several journals with articles about water policy, affirmative action, environmental justice and sustainable development. Nancy Nadel is the widow of Chappell Hayes, a West Oakland political activist and mother of Sele Nadel-Hayes.

She began her political career as an elected director of the East Bay Municipal Utility District Board where she served two terms.

In the last several years she has come under harsh criticism for her often hostile remarks about the police department^{[citation needed]} and for nurturing economic growth in her neighborhood while ignoring or impeding the economic growth and needs of the working poor in other West Oakland neighborhoods, such as the Prescott.^{[citation needed]} This criticism likely contributed to her lack of success in her run for mayor.^{[citation needed]}