Ms. Lois Kazakoff

Biography

Lois Kazakoff is the deputy editorial page editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. She is responsible for the op-ed page, including the opinion editorials and the columnists, and serves as the regional editor for the editorial pages department. She also oversees the design and production of the editorial and op-ed pages. The op-ed page was awarded the Association of Opinion Page Editors best op-ed feature in 1999, best theme page in 2002, and best special section in 2005. Previous to her current position, she was the editor of The Chronicle's Sunday commentary section, Chronicle Sunday, the Open Forum editor, and a business writer and editor. In 1997, she launched a campaign to begin presenting the newspaper's stock tables in a more commonsense form: in dollars and cents instead of fractions. As a result, she was invited to testify before a congressional subcommittee in support of legislation to change the increments in which stocks were traded. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in French from the University of California at Santa Cruz and a Master of Science of Journalism degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She is an avid cook, gardener, hiker and traveler. She lives in Benicia, California, with her husband and two cats.