Mission District supervisor Jackie Fielder will be back at San Francisco City Hall next Monday after a three-month leave of absence for mental health issues that, she said, grew gradually in her first year in office until she experienced a collapse and checked herself into a hospital.
From there, on March 27, she called two reporters and Mayor Daniel Lurie to say that she planned to resign.
“I felt a pressure to escape, and that was my emergency escape button,” she told Mission Local in an interview Saturday. “I was just feeling a lot of intense feelings to get out of the role on that one day, when I was having my crisis. That’s when I had called you to talk about me wanting to resign, and inviting you to come to the hospital.”…