Jim DeMartini has practiced law in the county of Sonoma since 1977. After thirteen years of commuting to Santa Rosa as a partner in the law firm of Stark, DeMartini & Curry, Jim moved his practice full time to his Cloverdale office in 1990.

The DeMartini family lives just north of Cloverdale in a one hundred-year-old home amid the wine grape vineyards of Oat Valley. Jim shares his home with his wife, Cynthia, and their children Sophia, and Gabriel.

Jim is a past chairman of the Cloverdale Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Cloverdale Economic Development Commission. He is also the Chair of the City of Cloverdale Citizens' Plan Review Committee, and and serves as the Chair of the Cloverdale Unified School District Student Attendance Review Board (SARB).

He has served on the Cloverdale Planning Commission, sitting as its chairman for six years. He is a board member, and past board chairman, of the Cloverdale Health Care District.

Jim is a member, and past president, of the Rotary Club of Cloverdale. He has been a member, and president, of the Century Lions Club of Cloverdale. He is a member of the Cloverdale Druids and is a Third Degree Knight of Columbus.

Over the last three decades Jim has supervised the incorporation of many of Cloverdale's non-profit organizations, including the Cloverdale Boys and Girls Club, Cloverdale Historical Society, Cloverdale Volunteer Fire Fighters Association, Cloverdale Rotary Foundation, American Legion Gun Club, and the Cloverdale Wine And Visitors Center.

Away from the office, Jim enjoys hunting waterfowl and deer, fishing offshore in his boat, scuba diving, abalone and lobster diving, doing the cooking for his family and ...of course...golf.

He is the string bass player for the Healdsburg Community Band and the Starlight Swing Band, and plays his bass with several local jazz bands.

Please read Jim's Curriculum Vitae.