Nicole Crosby
Nicole Crosby is running for election to the San Diego City Council to represent District 2 in California. Crosby is on the ballot in the primary on June 2, 2026.[source]
Crosby completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2026. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Nicole Crosby's career experience includes working as an attorney.[1]
Elections
2026
See also: City elections in San Diego, California (2026)
General election
The primary will occur on June 2, 2026. The general election will occur on November 3, 2026. General election candidates will be added here following the primary.
Nonpartisan primary
Nonpartisan primary election for San Diego City Council District 2
The following candidates are running in the primary for San Diego City Council District 2 on June 2, 2026.
Candidate | ||
 | Richard Bailey (Nonpartisan) | |
| Josh Coyne (Nonpartisan) | ||
 | Nicole Crosby (Nonpartisan)  | |
| Mandy Havlik (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Jacob Mitchell (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Michael Rickey (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Paul Suppa (Nonpartisan) | ||
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Endorsements
Crosby received the following endorsements. To view a full list of Crosby's endorsements as published by their campaign, click here. To send us additional endorsements, click here.
- Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis (D)
- State Rep. Darshana Patel (D)
- Frmr. State Rep. Brian Maienschein (D)
- California Working Families Party
- San Diego County, Calif., Democratic Party
- International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) Local 145
- San Diego & Imperial Counties Labor Council
- AAPI Democrats of San Diego
- Black Mountain Democratic Club
- San Diego Democrats for Equality
- San Diego Young Democrats
- UC San Diego Triton Democrats
Campaign themes
2026
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Nicole Crosby completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2026. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Crosby's responses.
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A proud daughter of California, Nicole grew up in a working family. When Nicole and her brothers were young, her family relied on employer-provided medical insurance and childcare benefits to get by—an experience that shaped her lifelong commitment to economic fairness. She was the first in her family to attend college, working both on and off campus to make ends meet. She later earned her law degree and a master’s degree in tax law, driven by her understanding that too often the system is stacked against regular people.
Nicole lives in Clairemont with her husband, Josh, and their 8-year-old daughter. Her daughter attends their neighborhood public school, where Nicole serves as PTA President. Her neighbors also elected her President of the Clairemont Town Council, where she now serves as Immediate Past President and current board member.
Nicole is currently a Deputy City Attorney in San Diego, where she civilly prosecutes slumlords who exploit renters. Over the course of her career, she has prosecuted hate crimes, domestic violence, elder abuse, and gun crimes. She created a successful program to help connect high utilizers of emergency services to stable housing environments, providing lifesaving mental and behavioral health services to unhoused individuals, while also saving the City’s police, fire and ambulance services time and money.- Make San Diego More Affordable for Working Families and Seniors We must keep our District 2 families, seniors, and young people rooted in vibrant, connected neighborhoods. I’ll work with the San Diego Housing Commission to expand home ownership opportunities and pursue policy reforms that stop corporations from buying up residential neighborhoods, including a 100-day waiting period for large corporate bidders. I'll fight short-term vacation rentals that displace families and strain schools and first responders. I’ll also prioritize safe, accessible public transit that meets riders where they are. Affordable housing and affordable transportation together build a San Diego where working families and seniors can truly thrive.
- Community Safety As a mom and Deputy City Attorney, community safety is my top priority. I led San Diego's nationally recognized Gun Violence Response Unit and have prosecuted hate crimes and domestic violence abusers. I will ensure full police and firefighter staffing, keep illegal guns off our streets, and protect communities from wildfires. I'll deliver a clear infrastructure roadmap to fix potholes, sidewalks, sewers, and roads while improving pedestrian and cyclist safety. On homelessness, I'll expand shelter beds, partner with the County for behavioral health services, and build senior housing on government land to protect our most vulnerable residents.
- Protect San Diegans from the Federal Government As a prosecutor and public attorney, I have spent my career upholding the Constitution. On the Council, I will work to ensure that all residents, regardless of immigration status, race, or identity, are afforded their full constitutional rights, including due process and equal protection under the law. I will defend reproductive rights and LGBTQ+ protections, strengthen San Diego's sanctuary city policies, and ensure that local law enforcement resources are never used to facilitate ICE operations that violate the rights of our community members. I am committed to utilizing my legal expertise and experience to defend our communities against federal overreach.
Eleni Kounalakis, California Lieutenant Governor
Dr. Darshana Patel, Assemblymember, District 76
Monica Montgomery Steppe, Vice Chair, San Diego County Board of Supervisors, District 4
Paloma Aguirre, San Diego County Board of Supervisors, District 1
Henry Foster III, San Diego City Councilmember, District 4
Sabrina Bazzo, Trustee, San Diego Unified School Board, Area A
Western States Regional Council of Carpenters
San Diego City Firefighters I.A.F.F Local 145
AFSCME Local 127
California Working Families Party
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Campaign website
Crosby's campaign website stated the following:
Nicole’s Plan
Make San Diego More Affordable for Working Families and Seniors
Nicole’s vision is for stronger neighborhoods that keep longtime residents in and connected to the heart of our communities by focusing on projects that are community-centered, close to schools, work, recreational spaces, and other essential amenities.
- Rein in the cost of living by focusing on projects that expand opportunity for home ownership and keep rents affordable.
- Work with the San Diego Housing Commission to create programs that expand housing opportunities and subsidies for seniors and working families.
- Programs that help support families and seniors access childcare, healthcare, and essential services needed to thrive in their neighborhoods.
Fix San Diego’s Potholes, Sewers, Sidewalks, and Roads
Our infrastructure in District 2 is in desperate need of repair. As your next Councilmember, she will work alongside our County and State partners to ensure execution of a one year, five year, and ten year roadmap that will deliver world class streets service and infrastructure to our communities. Nicole’s safe street priorities include:
- Protecting our kids, whether they are crossing the street or riding their bike by supporting proposals to improve our crosswalks, lights, and road safety.
- Repairs for our streetlights, potholes, sewers, sidewalks, and roads.
- Ensuring pedestrian and biker safety in our neighborhoods.
Prioritize Public Safety and Prevent Gun Violence
As a mom, Nicole believes community safety must always come first. As a Chief Deputy City Attorney, she worked throughout her career to protect children from gun violence, prosecute hate crimes, and represent survivors of domestic violence. She led the team that implemented the nationally recognized Gun Violence Response Unit in San Diego. Nicole’s public safety priorities include:
- Protect our communities from increased wildfire risk by ensuring our firefighters are fully staffed, prepared, and trained to fight and prevent the next wildfires that hit our area.
- Ensure full staffing for our police to improve response times.
- Support public safety legislation that keeps illegal guns out of our neighborhood.
Protect San Diegans from the Federal Government
As a prosecutor and public attorney, Nicole has spent her career upholding the Constitution. As your Councilmember, she will bring that same commitment to serve and protect every San Diegan.
On the Council, she will work to ensure that all residents, regardless of immigration status, race, or identity, are afforded their full constitutional rights, including due process and equal protection under the law. Nicole will defend reproductive rights and LGBTQ+ protections, strengthen San Diego’s sanctuary city policies, and ensure that local law enforcement resources are never used to facilitate ICE operations that violate the rights of our community members.
Nicole is committed to utilizing her legal expertise and experience to defend our communities against federal overreach.
Get Our Homeless Neighbors Off the Streets and into Supportive Services
All San Diegans deserve to be treated with dignity and have access to housing. As a Chief Deputy City Attorney, she was part of a dedicated team that created the first program in the City for comprehensive contact, review, and support for our most vulnerable community members. Getting people housed with proper treatment and support makes our neighborhoods safer and healthier for everyone. Nicole’s priorities to address street homelessness include:
- Develop partnerships with the County to deliver essential behavioral health services to our neighbors experiencing substance use and behavioral health disorders.
- Support expanding shelter beds where needed and preventative homelessness measures.
- Prevent our seniors from entering homelessness by building public senior care and housing facilities on government-owned land to prevent some of the City’s most vulnerable from ending up on the streets. In San Diego, the largest demographic entering homelessness is our seniors, who have been hit hardest by inflation and the rise in cost of living due to living on fixed incomes.
Find Common-Sense Solutions to San Diego’s Housing Crisis
We must prioritize creating housing solutions that are affordable, safe, and accessible. This requires deliberate and smart planning to accommodate inevitable growth, while protecting the character of our existing neighborhoods. Nicole’s housing priorities include:
- Standing up against short-sighted ADU policies that create haphazard buildings, enriching predatory developers. ADU developments need to be held accountable when it comes to trash can pile-ups in our neighborhoods.
- Creating new home ownership opportunities. By prioritizing gentle density such as townhomes, making space for families on existing land, and offering affordable homeownership that is free from ADU policies and maintains existing onsite parking requirements.
- Ensuring housing is built for San Diegans and not corporate entities. Nearly a quarter of housing in San Diego is bought by corporations, blocking our young families from becoming home owners. Nicole will pursue policy reforms that eliminate tax incentives for large companies to swoop in and buy up residential neighborhoods, as well as put a 100-day waiting period for large corporate bidders.
Rein in Short-Term Vacation Rentals
Neighborhoods should be where our residents thrive. In San Diego, there are almost 6,000 entire-home short-term rentals that sit empty roughly half the time. That vacancy presents a real threat to small businesses, hotels, and schools.
When we allow entire homes to become hotels full-time, we send families packing and force our teachers, nurses and firefighters into long commutes far from communities they serve. We have already seen the consequences. The loss of permanent residents in neighborhoods saturated by these short-term rentals has been tied to declining school enrollment and even school closure. Short term-rentals also overburden our first responders, costing tax payers and increasing emergency response times. As your Councilmember, Nicole will fight to keep neighbors in our neighborhoods by:
- Pursuing common-sense reforms to improve the lives of long-time residents, such as extending San Diego’s current two-night minimum stay to match standards set by cities across our nation. These policies will encourage owners to convert these entire-home rentals back into long-term housing that local residents can afford.
Deliver Affordable, Accessible Public Transit That’s Neighborhood Convenient
We must invest in transit that supports people who do not have access to it in San Diego. From Nicole’s home in Clairemont, she has to walk over a mile to get to a bus stop with infrequent service. One of the two routes is through a hilly canyon with no sidewalk or streetlights. People in the community with children and jobs, who want to take public transportation, and the individuals whose very survival is based on public transportation, need to be met where they are. With increased gas prices and the impacts of climate change, the city needs to invest in public transportation as an affordable travel option for those who depend on it.
We must prioritize safe and accessible transportation as we make a better San Diego for our future.
— Nicole Crosby's campaign website (March 28, 2026)
See also
2026 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on March 27, 2026
