The Los Angeles City Council is the lawmaking body for the city government of Los Angeles,California,the second largest city in the United States. It has 15 members who each represent the 15 city council districts that are spread throughout the city's 501 square miles of land.
Bernard C. Parks is an American politician who served as a member of the Los Angeles City Council,representing the 8th district in South Los Angeles from 2003 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party,Parks served as Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department from August 1997 to May 2002.
Richard Anthony Alarcon is an American politician who served as a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1993 to 1998 and again from 2007 to 2013. A Democrat,he previously served in the California State Senate and,for approximately three months,in the California State Assembly.
Herman J. "Herb" Wesson Jr. is an American politician who served as a councilmember representing the 10th District for three terms between July 1,2005 and December 14,2020,and again on an appointed basis from March 22,2022 until August 25,2022. He was also the President of the Los Angeles City Council and Speaker of the California State Assembly.
Curren De Mille Price Jr. is an American politician of the Democratic Party,currently serving as a Los Angeles city council member for District 9. Price was a California State Senator,representing the state's 26th Senate District which he won in the May 19,2009 special election to fill the seat vacated by Mark Ridley-Thomas. He previously served as a member of the California State Assembly,representing the state's 51st Assembly District. He was first elected to that position in 2006,and was re-elected in 2008. Price resigned as state senator on July 1,2013,to be sworn in as Los Angeles city councilman.
Leonis C. Malburg was an American politician and convicted felon,who served as Mayor of Vernon,California from his election in 1974 until his resignation in 2009. The grandson of the city's co-founder John B. Leonis,and a nephew of Miguel Leonis,Malburg and his wife Dominica were convicted of conspiracy,perjury,and voter fraud in 2009.
Los Angeles's 10th City Council district is one of the fifteen districts in the Los Angeles City Council. It is currently represented by Democrat Heather Hutt since 2022,after previous member Herb Wesson was barred from serving on an interim basis in place of suspended member Mark Ridley-Thomas.
Thomas Donald Shepard was an American politician who served as a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1961 and 1967. He left office when he was convicted of receiving a bribe,and he served time in state prison.
John Patrick Cassidy was a newspaperman and public relations practitioner who became a Los Angeles City Council member in District 12 between 1962 and 1967. Before and after his term he was a field deputy to two City Council members,and in 1967 he was briefly the head of public relations for the city's Recreation and Parks Department.
Paul H. Richards,II is an American politician who is a former mayor of Lynwood,California. He was sentenced to federal prison in 2006 on federal bribery and kickback charges.
Nury Martinez is an American former politician who served as a member of the Los Angeles City Council for the 6th district from 2013 until her resignation in 2022. A former member of the Democratic Party,Martinez became president of the Los Angeles City Council in December 2019,after serving as the council's president pro tempore. Martinez was the first Latina to become council president. She was a member of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education from 2009 to 2013.
Sebastian Ridley-Thomas is an American politician who served in the California State Assembly. A Democrat,he represented the 54th Assembly District,which includes the Los Angeles County communities of Century City,Culver City,Westwood,Mar Vista,Palms,Baldwin Hills,Windsor Hills,Ladera Heights,View Park,Crenshaw,Leimert Park,Mid City,and West Los Angeles.
David Eun Seok Ryu is an American politician,who served as the Los Angeles City Councilman for District 4 from 2015 to 2020. He is the first Korean-American to hold a council seat in Los Angeles,California,and the first Asian-American to serve on Los Angeles City Council Leadership. Ryu was defeated by Nithya Raman in the November 3rd,2020 general election.
Jovan Vavic is the former head coach of both the University of Southern California (USC) men's and women's water polo teams. In 2012,he was interim head coach of the United States men's national water polo team. While coaching USC he won the National Coach of the Year award 15 times,and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Coach of the Year award 13 times. He was fired by USC in March 2019 in the wake of his indictment in the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal. After his indictment,Vavic was arrested on charges of accepting at least $250,000 in bribes. In April 2022,he was convicted of fraud and bribery. However,the conviction was later overturned and a new trial ordered.
The 2022 Los Angeles mayoral election was held on November 8,2022,to elect the mayor of Los Angeles,California. A top-two primary was held on June 7,2022. Candidates could win the election outright by receiving more than 50% of the vote,but no candidate received a majority. More than forty candidates formed committees to run. Twenty-seven filed their declaration of intention to collect signatures for the ballot,and of these twelve qualified.
Stephen Bennett is an American activist,educator,and politician serving as a member of the California State Assembly from the 38th district as a member of the Democratic Party. Prior to his tenure in the state legislature,he was active in local politics in Ventura,California,and Ventura County,California,with him serving on the city council and board of supervisors.
The 2020 Los Angeles elections were held on March 3,2020. Voters elected candidates in a nonpartisan primary,with runoff elections scheduled for November 3,2020. Seven of the fifteen seats in the City Council were up for election.
Heather J. Hutt is an American politician who is currently serving as an appointed councilmember representing the 10th District of Los Angeles since April 11,2023,previously serving for a temporary vacancy from September 2,2022 to March 30,2023. She was previously a candidate for California's 54th State Assembly district in 2021 and served as a California State Director for then-Senator Kamala Harris from 2019 to 2020.
Marilyn Louise Flynn is the former dean of the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work.
On October 9,2022,an audio recording surfaced of a private meeting involving Los Angeles City Council members and a union leader that involved racist and disparaging comments and led to a local political scandal. The audio recording captured a conversation between City Council president Nury Martinez,fellow councilmembers Gil Cedillo and Kevin de León,and Los Angeles County Federation of Labor President Ron Herrera.
