Pierluigi Oliverio


Pierluigi Oliverio was the 6th district Councilmember on the San Jose City Council. He was sworn in on March 20, 2007 and left office in 2016.
San Jose Council District 6 covers west of Downtown and is made up of the various neighborhoods including greater Willow Glen, San Jose, California; Shasta Hanchett Park, San Jose; The Alameda ; College Park station ; and Rose Garden, San Jose, California. Within the council district are also the commercial strips such as West San Carlos, San Jose in Midtown San Jose, and Lincoln Avenue in downtown Willow Glen; the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in Naglee Park, San Jose; the Billy DeFrank Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center on The Alameda near San Jose Diridon station; and the major shopping centers at Santana Row and Westfield Valley Fair.

Background

Pierluigi grew up in San Jose attending K-12 public schools, and obtained his BA and Teaching Credential from San Jose State University. Prior to being elected to the San Jose City Council Pierluigi worked in the semiconductor and software industry.

Political campaigns

In an election held June 5, 2018, Pierluigi Oliverio unsuccessfully ran for the Santa Clara County Supervisor position in District 4 to replace the outgoing Ken Yeager. In the days after the election night, it seemed that Oliverio came in for a second place runoff election by a slim 105-vote margin However, it became clear that this was a third place showing as the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters continued its round-the-clock tally of provisional and mailed-in ballots.
Oliverio ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for California's 17th congressional district in the 2016 election, coming in fifth place with 4.2% of the vote.
Two months after losing his run for state congress, Oliverio filed papers in August 2016 to campaign for a seat on the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority's board of directors. He lost against the incumbent in District 4, Dorsey Moore, who won the four-year term for 2016–2020.
In 2014, Oliverio campaigned unsuccessfully in the mayoral race for the City of San Jose, California. He was eliminated from the race in the June primary coming in fourth with just under 10 percent of the vote..