Jill James Hoffman was elected to her third four-year term on the Sausalito City Council in November 2022. Jill served as Sausalito's Mayor in 2016 and 2021 and Vice Mayor in 2015. Jill is the City's School District Liaison and serves as the alternate to the Marin Telecommunications Agency. She also serves on the City Council Legislative Review Committee, the City Council OMIT Committee. Jill also serves as the City's representative on the Marin Bay Waterfront Adaptation Vulnerability Evaluation (BayWAVE) Committee and as the City's alternate Association of Bay Area Government's delegate.

Jill is an attorney and began her career in the United States Navy’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps. She was commissioned as an officer her last week in Law School and was assigned to Naval Station Treasure Island for her first duty station. This assignment resulted in an abiding love of the Bay Area and after completing a tour of duty in Naples Italy and another tour at Treasure Island during its last days of operation, she began her career as a civil litigator in San Francisco. During the last several years Jill developed an expertise in the area of wine law, and co-founded an ecommerce company, Qorkz Wine, that facilitates wine sales directly from limited production wineries to consumers.

Jill still serves as a Reservist in the United States Navy, and holds the rank of Captain. In September 2019 she was recalled for active duty. She returned after 12 months in September 2020. While she was away, Tom Reilly served as interim councilmember in her place.

Active in her community, Jill was President of the Golden Gate Breakfast Club in San Francisco in 2014, and served on the USO Bay Area Advisory Council from 2014-2015. An avid sailor, Jill and her husband completed a yearlong blue water sailing cruise in their 40 foot sailboat AWOL, sailing from Sausalito through the Panama Canal to Newport, Rhode Island.