As in past years, The San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial Board began discussing candidates for its 2020 San Diegan of the Year well before the year ended. We debated potential choices over multiple Zoom meetings, and we asked members of a weary public for suggestions in recent weeks.
Each time, we kept discussing the same person. As in past years, the choice was clear.
In 2017, we
honored the 20 people who died in the local hepatitis A crisis, whom county officials declined to identify. In 2018, we
celebrated U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw for his role in getting the federal government to treat immigrants more fairly and humanely. In 2019, we