Officer Bob Knighton (Ret.)

Bob Knighton is a native San Franciscan and was a former PAL kid. He was on SFPAL’s baseball team as a young boy and learned not only the fundamentals of baseball but many life lessons while being mentored by police officers who volunteered to coach the team. As a young man, he attended Woodrow Wilson High School and then City College of San Francisco where he developed an interest in law enforcement. Bob joined the ranks of the San Francisco Police Department in 1970 and had an exciting and thrilling career. After his retirement in 1998, he joined the SFPAL Board of Directors’ in an effort to give back to his community and to ensure that SFPAL’s programs continued.