On January 13, 2012, Mirkarimi was charged with domestic violence battery, child endangerment, and dissuading a witness in connection with a New Year's Eve altercation he had with his wife.

While jury selection was underway, Mirkarimi entered into a plea agreement with the district attorney, pleading guilty to one count of misdemeanor false imprisonment .< ref > San Francisco Chronicle Mayor says he'll suspend Mirkarimi </ ref > On March 20, 2012, Mayor Lee suspended Mirkarimi pending an ethics investigation and appointed Vicki Hennessy as Acting Sheriff .< ref > San Francisco Chronicle Mayor says he'll suspend Mirkarimi </ ref > On July 20, 2012, Mirkarimi was reunited with his wife after a judge lifted the stay-away order originally issued in January 2012 that barred Mirkarimi from contacting her.

Ross Mirkarimi ( pronounced Meehr-kah-REE-mee ) was born in Chicago to Nancy Kolman, a 19-year-old descended from Russian Jews, and Hamid Mirkarimi, an Iranian immigrant.

Mirkarimi is a graduate of the San Francisco Police Academy, where he was the president of his class.

Mirkarimi supported a measure by Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier to ban smoking in city parks.

In June 2008, Mirkarimi sponsored a one-year pilot program of a solar rebate program that provides $ 1. 5 million to nonprofit organizations and lower-income residents for the installation of solar voltaic power on rooftops ; the measure received initial approval from the Board of Supervisors.

On April 20, 2006 ( 4-20 ), the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws honored Mirkarimi with its Rufus King Award for outstanding leadership in the reform of marijuana laws.

Mirkarimi, in collaboration with Public Defender Jeff Adachi, District Attorney Kamala Harris and Sheriff Michael Hennessey, crafted the legislation to increase the effectiveness of City-wide efforts to reduce recidivism and violence, and promote safe and successful reentry into society for adults released from jails and prisons.

In March 2007, Mirkarimi introduced legislation that prohibits large supermarkets and drugstores from providing customers with non-biodegradable plastic bags, making San Francisco the first city to regulate such bags.

Mirkarimi has been involved in these civic and community service activities: Director for SF Nuclear Freeze Zone Coalition ; union negotiator for DAI Association union ; member of the IFPTE Local 2 ; member of the Harvey Milk Lesbian / Gay / Bisexual / Transgender Democratic Club ; member of the Iranian-American Chamber of Commerce ; environmental analyst for the Harvard Study Team ( Iraq ) Bayview Hunters Point, California Base Closures ; and member of the National Organization for Women ( NOW ).

Mirkarimi is a co-founder of the Green Party of California, but in March 2010, became a Democrat.

As Supervisor, Mirkarimi garnered national attention when he introduced the first legislation prohibiting the use of non-biodegradable plastic bags by large supermarkets and drugstores in 2007, making San Francisco the first city to do so.

Ross Mirkarimi ( born August 4, 1961 ) served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, representing District 5 from 2005 to 2011.

Mirkarimi served on the California Coastal Commission from 2009 to 2011.

Mirkarimi graduated from the Catholic, all-male Bishop Hendricksen High School in 1979.

" I totally credit my childhood in Jamestown for my green views ," Mirkarimi said.

On April 21, 2009, Ross became a father, as Eliana Lopez, a Venezuelan telenovela star whom he met at an environmental conference in Brazil, gave birth to his son, Theo Aureliano Mirkarimi.

Mirkarimi co-founded California's Green Party in 1990, and coordinated Ralph Nader's 2000 presidential campaign in California.

Mirkarimi supported Democrat Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election.

As San Francisco County supervisor, Mirkarimi has sponsored some 40 pieces of legislation in a wide range of areas, including medicinal marijuana, crime, making streets safer for pedestrians, improving efficiency of city departments, and the environment.

Not extending the law to golf courses, Mirkarimi declared, " has this undertone of elitism.

He wondered where the superstition had originated that it was bad luck for a crew chief to watch his plane take off on a combat mission.

The Nazis knew this, of course, and while their chief quarry was the industrial centers, they let a few drop every time they went over, hoping for a lucky hit.

She was not an overnight guest in the White House, but Mr. Ike Hoover, the chief usher, had Mama check her fur coat when she came in, and take care of her needs.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

the rather pleasant white city was on the hill where the chief stores were.

She soared over the new pastor like an avenging angel lest he stray from the path and not know all the truth and gossip of which she was chief repository.

On these excursions, Papa instructed him on man's chief end, which was his duty to God and his own salvation.

In 1931 Mrs. F. H. Briggs, agent and chief operator, who was to retire in 1946 with thirty years' service, led agency offices in sales for the year with $2,490.

His chief discovery was important -- the Great North ( later, the Hudson ) River -- but it produced no northwest passage.

Movement itself was the chief and often the only attraction of the primitive movies of the nineties.

The disclosure by Charles Bellows, chief defense counsel, startled observers and was viewed as the prelude to a quarrel between the six attorneys representing the eight former policemen now on trial.

In October 1944, he was appointed state warden and chief of the Forest Fire Section.

But just before luncheon today the fact was announced grimly by the British navy's chief adviser to the cabinet on underwater warfare, Capt. George Symonds.

This was the chief reason for a so-so sales outlook given by two-thirds of 56 builders polled by the National Housing Center.

Control of the government -- such control as there was and such government as there was -- passed into the hands of Joseph Mobutu, chief of staff of the Congolese army.

For the Lo Shu square was a remarkably complete compendium of most of the chief religious and philosophical ideas of its time.

Yuri Soloviev, Oleg Sokolov, Alexei Zhitkov, Lev Sokolov, Yuri Korneyev and Mr. Livshitz were the chief soloists, but everybody on stage was magnificent.

Doc Doolittle's scheduled appearance at captain's mast was a very unusual thing, because the discipline dispensed there is ordinarily for the young and immature, and a chief is naturally expected to stay off the report.

Yellow Wolf was there, nephew of the young chief by an older brother long dead, in whom also the disordered chemistries of youth worked.

However, while Apollo has a great number of appellations in Greek myth, only a few occur in Latin literature, chief among them Phoebus ( ; Φοίβος, Phoibos, literally " radiant "), which was very commonly used by both the Greeks and Romans in Apollo's role as the god of light.

In the time of Augustus, who considered himself under the special protection of Apollo and was even said to be his son, his worship developed and he became one of the chief gods of Rome.

Johnston was assigned to posts in New York and Missouri and served in the Black Hawk War in 1832 as chief of staff to Bvt.

The sea was traditionally known as Archipelago ( in Greek, Αρχιπέλαγος, meaning " chief sea "), but in English this word's meaning has changed to refer to the Aegean Islands and, generally, to any island group.

The first organized race was on April 28, 1887 by the chief editor of Paris publication Le Vélocipède, Monsieur Fossier.