Committee to Elect Gregory J. Diaz, Nevada County Clerk Recorder.
Commitment, Experience and Integrity - now Nevada County has them all in the Clerk-Recorder’s office.
About Greg Diaz
Gregory Diaz talks about his background
I graduated from Swarthmore College with a Bachelors Degree in history and a minor in education and then attended Rutgers University School of Law. I ended my law studies after three years, choosing instead to teach middle school social studies.
For the past 20 years I have focused on the duties of Clerk-Recorder. For the City and County of San Francisco I learned how these services work from the ground up. I began as a floor supervisor, overseeing the cleaning of ballots (remember hanging chads?). I worked 12 elections in San Francisco following my appointments in 1990 as Assistant County Clerk-Recorder in 1990, rising to County Clerk-Recorder in 1995.
My wife Katherine and I became Nevada County property owners in 1996 and moved here full-time in 2003. We live in the south county with our two daughters, Angela, a 2007 graduate of the University of California Berkeley; and Natalie, a 2009 graduate of Williams College in Massachusetts...
Katherine and I were always on the lookout for land because we both wanted to be out in the country. We both worked for the City and County of San Francisco, Katherine as law librarian for the City Attorney. It was 1995 and ‘96 and up here you just talk to people and things happen, so we soon found a plot of land. We didn’t really know much about the county but we certainly loved the ten-acre plot, so we bought it.
It took us about eight years to build our house. That’s when we started looking at whether we could live here full time. I took a job with Placer County and with it a big pay cut. I later worked for Amcad, LLC, a nationwide imaging and document management solutions provider, as Vice-President and General Manager for their Western Regional Operations, customizing,testing, training, and implementing land information systems and voting systems for 30 counties nationwide. Then in 2007 I became Clerk-Recorder for Nevada County.
At first we looked at growing grapes on our 10 acres, but the market for grapes was saturated. About that time we met our first alpacas at the Nevada County Fair. Katherine fell in love and I liked them, too, so we decided, “Let’s try that.” We bought four, and now we’re up to 49 animals — and still loving it!
Before alpacas I was an aspiring classical musician and a soccer player.
When I was five years old my parents enrolled me in the prestigious Settlement Music School in Philadelphia. For three years I played scales on the piano. All told, I did twelve years of classical piano study.
My father, a professor of physics at Temple University, was on the Burroughs team that created one of the first computers.
I was thinking, back then, of becoming a classical pianist. I was chosen to go to England for two years of music studies. There I got into rock and roll. I played keyboard, guitar and sang harmony. We had a pretty good band in the seventies.
Back in the states in San Francisco, riding the wave of The British Invasion, I played with a band called Chicago Blues Power for about a year and a half.
I was born and raised a Quaker, in the Philadelphia area. I went to Quaker boarding schools, where they don’t play football; they play soccer. Going to England I got really good at the sport. Later, in college, I was a Division Three All American in soccer.
After Swarthmore I taught in Philadelphia Middle School, seventh and eighth grade social studies, for three years. The kids were great. I was true to the old adage; if you respect the students they will respect you.
Sports and music have taken up a lot of my life. I like that kind of stuff. This will be my fifth year in the Over 50 Softball League. And I’m thinking I’ll be playing a lot more music after the election.
Katherine and I were part of Nevada City’s world famous Marching Presidents in last fall’s Constitution Day parade. Representing the current president, we led the group, walking as 44th President and First Lady Barack and Michelle Obama
I graduated from Swarthmore College with a Bachelors Degree in history and a minor in education and then attended Rutgers University School of Law. I ended my law studies after three years, choosing instead to teach middle school social studies.
For the past 20 years I have focused on the duties of Clerk-Recorder. For the City and County of San Francisco I learned how these services work from the ground up. I began as a floor supervisor, overseeing the cleaning of ballots (remember hanging chads?). I worked 12 elections in San Francisco following my appointments in 1990 as Assistant County Clerk-Recorder in 1990, rising to County Clerk-Recorder in 1995.
My wife Katherine and I became Nevada County property owners in 1996 and moved here full-time in 2003. We live in the south county with our two daughters, Angela, a 2007 graduate of the University of California Berkeley; and Natalie, a 2009 graduate of Williams College in Massachusetts...
Katherine and I were always on the lookout for land because we both wanted to be out in the country. We both worked for the City and County of San Francisco, Katherine as law librarian for the City Attorney. It was 1995 and ‘96 and up here you just talk to people and things happen, so we soon found a plot of land. We didn’t really know much about the county but we certainly loved the ten-acre plot, so we bought it.
It took us about eight years to build our house. That’s when we started looking at whether we could live here full time. I took a job with Placer County and with it a big pay cut. I later worked for Amcad, LLC, a nationwide imaging and document management solutions provider, as Vice-President and General Manager for their Western Regional Operations, customizing,testing, training, and implementing land information systems and voting systems for 30 counties nationwide. Then in 2007 I became Clerk-Recorder for Nevada County.
At first we looked at growing grapes on our 10 acres, but the market for grapes was saturated. About that time we met our first alpacas at the Nevada County Fair. Katherine fell in love and I liked them, too, so we decided, “Let’s try that.” We bought four, and now we’re up to 49 animals — and still loving it!
Before alpacas I was an aspiring classical musician and a soccer player.
When I was five years old my parents enrolled me in the prestigious Settlement Music School in Philadelphia. For three years I played scales on the piano. All told, I did twelve years of classical piano study.
My father, a professor of physics at Temple University, was on the Burroughs team that created one of the first computers.
I was thinking, back then, of becoming a classical pianist. I was chosen to go to England for two years of music studies. There I got into rock and roll. I played keyboard, guitar and sang harmony. We had a pretty good band in the seventies.
Back in the states in San Francisco, riding the wave of The British Invasion, I played with a band called Chicago Blues Power for about a year and a half.
I was born and raised a Quaker, in the Philadelphia area. I went to Quaker boarding schools, where they don’t play football; they play soccer. Going to England I got really good at the sport. Later, in college, I was a Division Three All American in soccer.
After Swarthmore I taught in Philadelphia Middle School, seventh and eighth grade social studies, for three years. The kids were great. I was true to the old adage; if you respect the students they will respect you.
Sports and music have taken up a lot of my life. I like that kind of stuff. This will be my fifth year in the Over 50 Softball League. And I’m thinking I’ll be playing a lot more music after the election.
Katherine and I were part of Nevada City’s world famous Marching Presidents in last fall’s Constitution Day parade. Representing the current president, we led the group, walking as 44th President and First Lady Barack and Michelle Obama
