David Petersen:  

After graduating from St. Patrick School in 1963 I attended Bellarmine College Prep, graduating there in 1967. From there I went to the Univ. of Santa Clara as an Economics major, and received my B.A. in 1971. In 1973 I received my M.A. in Economics from Stanford University. In 1970 I married my wonderful wife Joleen in the Santa Clara Mission church. Last year, 2018, we celebrated our 48th wedding anniversary. We have 3 sons, ages 42, 37 & 32. Both of the younger ones got their B.A. degrees at U.C. Santa Cruz, and in June 2015 the 32yr-old received his PhD in Sociology, Criminal Justice, Law & Society at U.C. Irvine. He joined the faculty at University of Miami at that time. We currently have 2 grand-daughters, Lily, who is 8 years old, and Violet is 3. The proud parents of both are our oldest son, Nathan and his wife Mary. As far as work is concerned, I worked for American Express in S.F. as an investment analyst, and then joined Wells Fargo Bank for 13 years as a branch manager. I was hired away from Wells by one of my customers there. They owned an insurance agency & brokerage firm, where I was Controller and Operations Manager. After 20 + years in that position the owners sold the firm to Wells Fargo Insurance, so I bounced back to Wells Fargo (Insu...Expand for more