Los Angeles City Council
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The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles
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Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

.

The Council is composed of fifteen members elected from single-member districts for four-year terms. The president of the council and the president pro tempore are chosen by the Council at the first regular meeting after June 30 in odd-numbered years. An assistant president pro tempore is appointed by the President.

It holds regular meetings in the City Hall
Los Angeles City Hall
Los Angeles City Hall, completed 1928, is the center of the government of the city of Los Angeles, California, and houses the mayor's office and the meeting chambers and offices of the Los Angeles City Council...

 on Tuesday, Wednesday and Fridays at 10 am (except on holidays or if decided by special resolution not to meet).

A current annual (July to June) schedule of all Council meetings, broken down by committee, is available as a .pdf download from the Office of the City Clerk.

Current members

Officers:
  • President of the Council: Eric Garcetti
    Eric Garcetti
    Eric Michael Garcetti is an American municipal politician. He is a member of the Los Angeles City Council. He serves as its President and represents the 13th District. He is the son of the former Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti. He is a member of the Democratic Party.-Early...

  • President Pro Tempore: Jan Perry
    Jan Perry
    Jan C. Perry is an American municipal politician. She is currently representing the 9th district of the Los Angeles City Council. She is a member of the Democratic Party.-City Council elections:...

  • Assistant President Pro Tempore: Dennis Zine

District Name
1  Ed Reyes
Ed Reyes
Eduardo Perez Reyes is an American politician. He is a member of the Los Angeles City Council, representing the 1st district. Reyes was re-elected in 2005 to serve a second Council term, capturing 78 percent of the votes. He is a member of the Democratic Party...

2  Paul Krekorian
Paul Krekorian
Paul Krekorian is an American politician and member of the Los Angeles City Council representing the second district. He was previously a member of the California State Assembly, and the Assistant Majority Floor Leader representing California's 43rd Assembly District...

3  Dennis Zine
4
Los Angeles City Council District 4
Los Angeles City Council District 4 is one of the 15 districts of the Los Angeles City Council, situated in the center of the city. It is represented by Tom Labonge....

 
Tom LaBonge
Tom LaBonge
Thomas J. "Tom" LaBonge is an American politician. He is a member of the Los Angeles City Council representing the 4th district. He has served since 2001, taking over the position upon the death of John Ferraro. The district represents a wide diversity of incomes and neighborhoods...

5  Paul Koretz
Paul Koretz
Paul Koretz is an American politician. He is currently a member of the Los Angeles City Council, representing the Fifth Council District. He was previously a member of the California State Assembly and the West Hollywood City Council...

6
Los Angeles City Council District 6
Los Angeles City Council District 6 is one of the 15 districts of the Los Angeles City Council, covering much of the San Fernando Valley. It is represented by Tony Cardenas....

 
Tony Cardenas
Tony Cardenas
Tony Cardenas is an American politician. He is currently a member of the Los Angeles City Council, representing the Sixth Council District which covers portions of the southeast San Fernando Valley, including the communities of Arleta, Pacoima, Sun Valley, North Hollywood, Panorama City, Van Nuys...

7  Richard Alarcón
Richard Alarcón
Richard Anthony Alarcón is a California politician who is currently a Los Angeles City Councilman. A Democrat, he has previously served in the California State Senate and, for approximately three months, in the California State Assembly.Alarcón first served as an assistant to Los Angeles Mayor Tom...

8
Los Angeles City Council District 8
Los Angeles City Council District 8 is one of the 15 districts of the Los Angeles City Council, covering much of South Los Angeles. The current council member is Bernard C. Parks....

 
Bernard Parks
9
Los Angeles City Council District 9
Los Angeles City Council District 9 is one of the 15 districts of the Los Angeles City Council. The Ninth District encompasses the western section of Downtown Los Angeles and much of South Los Angeles. The current council member is Jan Perry....

 
Jan Perry
Jan Perry
Jan C. Perry is an American municipal politician. She is currently representing the 9th district of the Los Angeles City Council. She is a member of the Democratic Party.-City Council elections:...

10
Los Angeles City Council District 10
Los Angeles City Council District 10 is one of the 15 districts of the Los Angeles City Council. It includes parts of Palms, Koreatown and South Los Angeles. Herb Wesson has been the incumbent since 2005....

 
Herb Wesson
Herb Wesson
Herb J. Wesson, Jr. is an American politician. He currently serves as a Los Angeles City Councilman, representing the 10th district. He served in the State Assembly representing the 47th district from 1998 until 2004. He served as Speaker of the California State Assembly from 2002 until 2004...

11  Bill Rosendahl
Bill Rosendahl
William Joseph "Bill" Rosendahl is an American politician. He is serving on the Los Angeles City Council, representing Council District 11. He is a member of the Democratic Party.-Biography:...

12
Los Angeles City Council District 12
Los Angeles City Council District 12 is one of the 15 districts of the Los Angeles City Council. It encompasses the far northwestern section of the city in the San Fernando Valley. Mitchell Englander is the current officeholder....

 
Mitchell Englander
Mitchell Englander
Mitchell Englander is the newest member of the Los Angeles City Council, since July 1, 2011. He represents the northeast and east San Fernando Valley.-Biography:Englander was born about 1971...

13  Eric Garcetti
Eric Garcetti
Eric Michael Garcetti is an American municipal politician. He is a member of the Los Angeles City Council. He serves as its President and represents the 13th District. He is the son of the former Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti. He is a member of the Democratic Party.-Early...

14
Los Angeles City Council District 14
Los Angeles City Council District 14 is one of the 15 districts of the Los Angeles City Council. It is a primarily Latino district in Boyle Heights and Northeast Los Angeles...

 
José Huizar
José Huizar
José Luis Huizar is an American elected official and a member of the Los Angeles City Council representing District 14. He was elected on November 8, 2005 in a special election to fill the seat vacated by current Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and was reelected to a full four-year term in...

15  Vacant

1889–1909 (nine wards)

Year |Ward
  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
1889 H. V. Van Dusen  George P. McLain  William Hartshorn Bonsall
William Hartshorn Bonsall
William Hartshorn Bonsall was acting mayor of Los Angeles from December 5, 1892 – December 12, 1892 and served on the city council representing the 3rd ward from 1891 to 1895. From 1893 to 1895 he was President of the City Council...

 
Jacob Frankenfield  Austin C. Shafer  A. N. Hamilton  J. T. Brown  Theodore Summerland  Robert E. Wirsching
1890 George W. Stockwell  Daniel Innes  William Hartshorn Bonsall
William Hartshorn Bonsall
William Hartshorn Bonsall was acting mayor of Los Angeles from December 5, 1892 – December 12, 1892 and served on the city council representing the 3rd ward from 1891 to 1895. From 1893 to 1895 he was President of the City Council...

 
William Henry Rhodes  John Quincy Tufts  C. H. Alford  Daniel Michael McGarry  Theodore Summerland  Samuel Rees
1891 George W. Stockwell  Daniel Innes  William Hartshorn Bonsall
William Hartshorn Bonsall
William Hartshorn Bonsall was acting mayor of Los Angeles from December 5, 1892 – December 12, 1892 and served on the city council representing the 3rd ward from 1891 to 1895. From 1893 to 1895 he was President of the City Council...

 
William Henry Rhodes  John Quincy Tufts  C. H. Alford  Daniel Michael McGarry  Theodore Summerland  Samuel Rees
1894 George W. Stockwell  Meredith Pinxton Snyder
Meredith P. Snyder
Meredith Pinxton Snyder was the 23rd Mayor of Los Angeles, California, USA, serving 1896–1898, 1900–1904 and 1919–1921...

 
Frank Styles Munson  Samuel H. Kingery  Freeman G. Teed
Freeman G. Teed
Freeman G. Teed served as Los Angeles City Auditor from 1886 until 1888....

 
George Douglas Pessell  James Ashman  Thomas Savage  Evert L. Blanchard
1900 William Henry Pierce  George P. McLain  Frank Walker  Pomeroy Wills Powers  William Miller Brown  A. A. Allen  Benjamin Samuel Lauder  Robert Asa Todd  Evert L. Blanchard
1902 Owen McAleer
Owen McAleer
Owen McAleer served as the 25th Mayor of Los Angeles, California, from 1904 to 1906.-Biography:A native of Liskeard, Ontario Canada, McAleer came to Los Angeles, California in 1888. He built the city's first steam boiler and later became a superintendent at Baker Iron Works.McAleer formed the...

 
Chauncey Fitch Skilling  Oscar Eugene Farish  Theodore Summerland  William Miller Brown  James Potter Davenport  Edward Kern  Robert Asa Todd  Frank U. Nofziger
1907 Reuben Wiser Dromgold  Edward A. Clampitt  Walter J. Wren  Niles Pease  Albert Joseph Wallace  H. H. Yonkin  Henry Lyon  Bernard “Barney” Healy  Evert L. Blanchard
1908 Reuben Wiser Dromgold  Edward A. Clampitt  Walter J. Wren  Niles Pease  Albert Joseph Wallace  H. H. Yonkin  Edward Kern  Bernard “Barney” Healy  Evert L. Blanchard

1925 and after (fifteen districts)

Year District
1  2  3  4
Los Angeles City Council District 4
Los Angeles City Council District 4 is one of the 15 districts of the Los Angeles City Council, situated in the center of the city. It is represented by Tom Labonge....

 
5  6
Los Angeles City Council District 6
Los Angeles City Council District 6 is one of the 15 districts of the Los Angeles City Council, covering much of the San Fernando Valley. It is represented by Tony Cardenas....

 
7  8
Los Angeles City Council District 8
Los Angeles City Council District 8 is one of the 15 districts of the Los Angeles City Council, covering much of South Los Angeles. The current council member is Bernard C. Parks....

 
9
Los Angeles City Council District 9
Los Angeles City Council District 9 is one of the 15 districts of the Los Angeles City Council. The Ninth District encompasses the western section of Downtown Los Angeles and much of South Los Angeles. The current council member is Jan Perry....

 
10
Los Angeles City Council District 10
Los Angeles City Council District 10 is one of the 15 districts of the Los Angeles City Council. It includes parts of Palms, Koreatown and South Los Angeles. Herb Wesson has been the incumbent since 2005....

 
11  12
Los Angeles City Council District 12
Los Angeles City Council District 12 is one of the 15 districts of the Los Angeles City Council. It encompasses the far northwestern section of the city in the San Fernando Valley. Mitchell Englander is the current officeholder....

 
13  14
Los Angeles City Council District 14
Los Angeles City Council District 14 is one of the 15 districts of the Los Angeles City Council. It is a primarily Latino district in Boyle Heights and Northeast Los Angeles...

 
15
1925 Charles Randall
Charles Hiram Randall
Charles Hiram Randall , known as Charles Randall, was a member of the U.S. Congress, the California State Assembly and the Los Angeles City Council in the 20th Century.-Biography:...

Robert M. Allan
Robert M. Allan
Robert M. Allan was a member of the City Council in Los Angeles, California, from 1921 to 1927.-Biography:Robert M. Allan was a member of the City Council in Los Angeles, California, from 1921 to 1927.-Biography:...

Isaac F. Hughes
Isaac F. Hughes
Not to be confused with William M. Hughes, council member in 1927 to 1929.Isaac F. Hughes, known as I.F. Hughes, was a miller, a grocer and a businessman who was the first representative of Los Angeles City Council District 3 after a new city charter went into effect in 1925...

Boyle Workman
Boyle Workman
Andrew Boyle Workman was a Los Angeles politician and businessman. He served as President of the Los Angeles City Council and, as such, was acting Mayor on occasion. He was the first city councilman to represent District 4 , under the new charter of 1925...

Robert Stewart Sparks
Robert Stewart Sparks
Robert Stewart Sparks was a Los Angeles City Council member in the 1920s. He was the first person to represent the 5th District under a new city charter effective in 1925...

Edward E. Moore
Edward E. Moore
Not to be confused with George E. Moore, Los Angeles City Council member, 1943–51Edward E. Moore , an attorney and real-estate man, was an Indiana state senator for eight years in the early part of the 20th Century and a City Council member in Los Angeles, California, from 1925 to...

Ralph Luther Criswell
Ralph Luther Criswell
Ralph Luther Criswell , first a Socialist and then a Republican, was a member of the Los Angeles City Council for ten years in the early 20th Century...

Frank L. Shaw
Frank L. Shaw
Frank L. Shaw was the first mayor of a major American city to be recalled from office, in 1938. He was also a member of the Los Angeles City Council and then the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors...

Winfred J. Sanborn
Winfred J. Sanborn
Winfred Joseph Sanborn. known as Winfred J. Sanborn, was on the Los Angeles City Council under an at-large election system from 1919 until a new city charter was adopted in 1925, when representation was changed to a fifteen-district system. Sanborn served the new Ninth District from 1925 until...

 
Charles E. Downs
Charles E. Downs
Charles E. Downs was the first Los Angeles City Council member representing the 10th District after a new city charter went into effect in 1925...

/Otto J. Zahn
Peirson M. Hall
Peirson M. Hall
Peirson Mitchell Hall, known as Peirson M. Hall, was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1925 to 1929, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California from 1933 to 1937, a judge in the Los Angeles Superior Court from 1939 to 1940, head of the U.S. Selective Service System for...

A. J. Barnes
A. J. Barnes
A. J. Barnes was the first person to represent the 12th district of the Los Angeles City Council under the new charter in 1925. He served until 1927....

 
Joseph F. Fitzpatrick/Carl Ingold Jacobson
Carl Ingold Jacobson
Carl Ingold Jacobson was a City Council member in Los Angeles, California, from 1925 to 1933. He was tried on a morals charge, and then it was later shown that he was the victim of a frame-up by local police authorities.-Biography:...

Isaac Colton Ash
Isaac Colton Ash
Isaac Colton Ash was a banker, real-estate dealer and member of the Los Angeles City Council in the 20th century.-Biography:Isaac Colton Ash was a banker, real-estate dealer and member of the Los Angeles City Council in the 20th century.-Biography:Isaac Colton Ash was a banker, real-estate...

Charles J. Colden
Charles J. Colden
Charles J. Colden was a 20th century California politician who served in the Los Angeles City Council and the U.S. Congress.Charles J. Colden was a 20th century California politician who served in the Los Angeles City Council and the U.S. Congress.Charles J...

1926 Otto J. Zahn Carl Ingold Jacobson
Carl Ingold Jacobson
Carl Ingold Jacobson was a City Council member in Los Angeles, California, from 1925 to 1933. He was tried on a morals charge, and then it was later shown that he was the victim of a frame-up by local police authorities.-Biography:...

1927 Arthur Alber
Arthur Alber
Arhur Alber was an attorney and a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1927 to 1929.-Biography:Alber was born September 16, 1892, in Birmingham, Alabama. His parents were Hermann Alber, a native of Germany, and Mary Wing of Cape Cod, Massachusetts...

Ernest L. Webster
Ernest L. Webster
Ernest L. Webster was a pioneer automobile dealer in Los Angeles, California, and representative of the 3rd District on the Los Angeles City Council between 1927 and 1931.-Biography:...

William M. Hughes
William M. Hughes
Not to be confused with Isaac F. Hughes, council member 1925 to 1927.William M. Hughes was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1927 and 1929...

Virgil A. Martin
Virgil A. Martin
Virgil A. Martin was a business executive and member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1927 and 1931.-Biography:Martin was born October 15, 1874, in Tecumseh, Nebraska, the son of Judson W. Martin and Ennis C. Smith...

 
Lester R. Rice-Wray
Lester R. Rice-Wray
Lester Rice-Wray was a professor of mathematics at the University of Denver who later was elected to the City Council in Los Angeles, California, and was the first councilman there to face a recall election under the 1925 city charter....

Howard W. Davis
Howard W. Davis
Howard W. Davis was a member of the California State Assembly for two years and of the Los Angeles City Council for 16 years. He was indicted on charges of accepting bribes to influence his actions as a city official but was cleared on one count and never tried on the others, which were...

E. Snapper Ingram
E. Snapper Ingram
Ebenezer Snapper Ingram was a Los Angeles City Councilmember representing the 10th District from 1927 until 1935. He went by E. Snapper Ingram.-Biography:...

Douglas Eads Foster
Douglas Eads Foster
Douglas Eads Foster was a Los Angeles, California, dentist who served on the City Council of that city between 1927 and 1929.-Biography:...

William George Bonelli
1928 James G. McAllister
James G. McAllister
Not to be confused with Robert S. MacAlister, Los Angeles City Council member 1934–39James G. McAllister was a 20th century rancher and miner who was on the Utah Board of Equalization and later was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1928 to 1933.-Biography:McAllister was...

Evan Lewis
Evan Lewis (politician)
Evan Lewis was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1925 and 1941.-Biography:Lewis was born in Wales on July 2, 1869, and was taken to Iowa when young. He became a U.S. citizen in 1890, two years after moving to California. He was at various times a deputy sheriff, a...

1929 Thomas F. Cooke
Thomas F. Cooke
Thomas F. Cooke was an Iowa and California banker and a City Council member in Los Angeles, California, between 1929 and 1931.-Biography:...

Robert L. Burns
Robert L. Burns
Robert L. Burns was a Los Angeles school board member between 1923 and 1929 and Los Angeles City Council member between 1929 and 1945. He previously was on the school board in Hutchinson, Kansas. At his death in 1955, he was described as Los Angeles's "elder statesman."Robert L...

J. C. Barthel Thomas W. Williams
Thomas W. Williams (Los Angeles)
Thomas W. Williams was a former coal miner, school principal and church minister who was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1929 and 1931...

Charles A. Holland
Charles A. Holland
Charles Alfred Holland , who went by Charles A. Holland, was a University of Southern California football captain, a businessman and a Los Angeles, California, City Council member between 1929 and 1931.-Biography:...

A. E. Henning
1930
1931 James M. Hyde
James M. Hyde
James M. Hyde was a metallurgist who was noted for inventing a process that revolutionized the American mining industry. He was also a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1931 to 1939.-Biography:...

James Stuart McKnight Roy Donley
Roy Donley
Roy L. Donley was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from the Fifth District in 1931 and 1932. He was also deputy United States Internal Revenue collector....

George W. C. Baker
George W. C. Baker
Not to be confused with Earle D. Baker, Los Angeles City Council member, 1951–59.George Washington Conrad Baker , known as George W.C. Baker, was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1931 to 1935....

Clarence E. Coe
Clarence E. Coe
Clarence Elliot Coe , known as Clarence E. Coe, was one of the first settlers and farmers in Palms, California, and a member of the Los Angeles Police Commission from 1929 to 1931 and of the Los Angeles City Council from 1931 to 1933....

Thomas Francis Ford Edward L. Thrasher
Edward L. Thrasher
Edward Lee Thrasher , who went by Edward L. Thrasher, was a builder, contractor and decorator who served on the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1931 and 1942.-Biography:...

1932
1933 Jim Wilson
Jim Wilson (Los Angeles)
Jim Wilson was a pioneer banker and businessman of the San Fernando Valley who was on the Los Angeles City Council from 1933 to 1941....

Stephen W. Cunningham
Stephen W. Cunningham
Stephen W. Cunningham was the first graduate manager at the Southern Branch of the University of California, later UCLA, and a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1933 to 1941.-Biography:Stephen W...

Byron B. Brainard
Byron B. Brainard
Byron B. Brainard was an electrician, auto mechanic, auto salesman, real estate broker and community newspaper editor who was also a Los Angeles City Council member between 1933 and 1939.-Biography:Byron B...

Earl C. Gay
Earl C. Gay
Earl C. Gay was a registered pharmacist who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1933 and 1945.-Biography:Earl C. Gay was a registered pharmacist who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1933 and 1945.-Biography:Earl C...

 
Charles Winchester Breedlove
Charles Winchester Breedlove
Charles Winchester Breedlove was an invalided U.S. Marine, an actor and a motion picture director who died in office while a member of the Los Angeles City Council in the 1930s.-Biography:...

 
James T. Carroll
James T. Carroll
James T. Carroll in 1933 served 103 days as 12th District member of the Los Angeles City Council to fill out the unexpired term of Thomas Francis Ford, who had been elected to the U.S. Congress the preceding year.-Biography:...

/John W. Baumgartner
John W. Baumgartner
John Walter Baumgartner was a civil engineer who was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1933 to 1945.-Biography:...

Darwin William Tate
Darwin William Tate
Darwin William Tate , who went by Darwin W. Tate, was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1933 and 1939 and chief of the California Division of State Beaches and Parks from 1939 to 1942.-Biography:...

Franklin P. Buyer
1934 Robert S. MacAlister
Robert S. MacAlister
Not to be confused with James G. McAllister, Los Angeles City Council member 1928–33Robert Stuart MacAlister , who went by Robert S. MacAlister, was an oil-well-supplies salesman and a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1934 and 1939.-Biography:MacAlister was born on May...

John W. Baumgartner
John W. Baumgartner
John Walter Baumgartner was a civil engineer who was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1933 to 1945.-Biography:...

1935 Will H. Kindig
Will H. Kindig
William Harvey Kindig , known as Will H. Kindig or W.H. Kindig, was a candidate for California state controller in 1934, Los Angeles City Council member from 1935 to 1937 and a sponsor of the Ham and Eggs movement for old-age pensions in California in 1939.-Biography:Kindig moved to California...

Parley Parker Christensen G. Vernon Bennett
G. Vernon Bennett
Guy Vernon Bennett , also known as G. Vernon Bennett, was superintendent of schools in Pomona, California; a professor of education at the University of Southern California, and a Los Angeles city councilman from the 10th District from 1935 to 1951...

1936
1937 Howard W. Davis
Howard W. Davis
Howard W. Davis was a member of the California State Assembly for two years and of the Los Angeles City Council for 16 years. He was indicted on charges of accepting bribes to influence his actions as a city official but was cleared on one count and never tried on the others, which were...

Howard E. Dorsey
Howard E. Dorsey
Howard E. Dorsey was a hydraulic engineer who was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council in 1937. He was the only City Council member since at least 1925 to die in office from accidental death — in his case, a traffic mishap — and the member to have served the fewest number of days...

/Winfred J. Sanborn
Winfred J. Sanborn
Winfred Joseph Sanborn. known as Winfred J. Sanborn, was on the Los Angeles City Council under an at-large election system from 1919 until a new city charter was adopted in 1925, when representation was changed to a fifteen-district system. Sanborn served the new Ninth District from 1925 until...

1938 Winfred J. Sanborn
Winfred J. Sanborn
Winfred Joseph Sanborn. known as Winfred J. Sanborn, was on the Los Angeles City Council under an at-large election system from 1919 until a new city charter was adopted in 1925, when representation was changed to a fifteen-district system. Sanborn served the new Ninth District from 1925 until...

1939 Norris J. Nelson
Norris J. Nelson
Norris J. Nelson was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1939 to 1943, after which he served in Europe with the U.S. Army.-Biography:...

Arthur E. Briggs
Arthur E. Briggs
Dr. Arthur Elbert Briggs was a teacher and law school dean who was a Los Angeles, California, City Council member from 1939 to 1941 and the leader of the Ethical Society of Los Angeles in 1953.-Biography:...

Carl C. Rasmussen
Carl C. Rasmussen
Carl Christian Rasmussen was a Lutheran minister who was also a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1939 and 1947.-Biography:...

Parley Parker Christensen Harold Harby
Harold Harby
Not to be confused with Harold A. Henry, Los Angeles City Council member 1945–66.Harold Harby was elected to the Los Angeles, California, City Council in 1939, but he had to leave office in 1942 when he was convicted of using a city car for a trip out of the state. He was reelected in 1943 and...

Roy Hampton
Roy Hampton
Roy Hampton was an attorney, ex-Marine and former journalist who was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1939 to 1943...

Wilder W. Hartley
Wilder W. Hartley
Wilder W. Hartley was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from the Harbor and South Los Angeles districts from 1939 to 1943.-Biography:...

1940
1941 Delamere Francis McCloskey
Delamere Francis McCloskey
Delamere Francis McCloskey was a Canadian-born San Fernando Valley attorney who represented the 1st District on the Los Angeles City Council from 1941 to 1945.-Biography:...

J. Win Austin
J. Win Austin
J. Win Austin was a retired businessman who became a Los Angeles, California, City Council member from 1941 to 1953. He was earlier on the Police and Health commissions.-Biography:...

Ira J. McDonald
Ira J. McDonald
Ira J. McDonald was a Downey, California, attorney and City Council member in Los Angeles, California, between 1941 and 1945.-Biography:...

Charles A. Allen
Charles A. Allen (California politician)
Not to be confused with Don A. Allen, Los Angeles City Council member, 1947–57.Charles A. Allen was on leave from his job as supervisor of the Los Angeles City Hall parking garage when he was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 1941...

1942 Dave Stannard
Dave Stannard
David Samuel Benjamin Stannard , who went by Dave Stannard, was a journalist and advertising representative named to the Los Angeles, California, City Council in 1942 to replace Harold Harby, who had been stripped of his seat because he used a city car to go on vacation in Montana.-Biography:David...

1943 Lloyd G. Davies
Lloyd G. Davies
Lloyd G. Davies was a Hollywood advertising and public relations man and sometime actor who was a Los Angeles City Council member from 1943 to 1951.-Biography:...

Harold Harby
Harold Harby
Not to be confused with Harold A. Henry, Los Angeles City Council member 1945–66.Harold Harby was elected to the Los Angeles, California, City Council in 1939, but he had to leave office in 1942 when he was convicted of using a city car for a trip out of the state. He was reelected in 1943 and...

Ned R. Healy
Ned R. Healy
Not to be confused with Don R. Healy, Los Angeles labor leader of the 1940s and 1950s.Ned Romeyn Healy , who went by Ned R. Healy, was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council in 1943 and 1944 and a member of Congress from 1945 to 1947.-Biography:Healy was born August 9, 1905, in...

John C. Holland
John C. Holland
John C. Holland was one of the longest-serving Los Angeles City Council members, for 24 years from 1943 to 1967, and was known for his losing fight against bringing the Los Angeles Dodgers to Chavez Ravine and for his reputation as a watchdog over the city treasury.-Biography:Holland was born...

George H. Moore
George H. Moore
George H. Moore , an attorney and a judge who was active in civic affairs of the Los Angeles Harbor region, was district attorney of San Benito County and a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1943 to 1951.-Biography:...

1944
1945 Leland S. Warburton
Leland S. Warburton
Leland S. Warburton, also known as Lee Warburton, was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1945 to 1953.Leland S. Warburton, also known as Lee Warburton, was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1945 to 1953....

Harold A. Henry
Harold A. Henry
Not to be confused with Harold Harby, Los Angeles City Council member 1943–57.Harold A. Henry was a community newspaper publisher who was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 1945 and was its president for four terms from 1947 to 1962....

George P. Cronk
George P. Cronk
Not to be confused with George H. Moore, Los Angeles City Council member, 1943–1951.George Parkman Cronk , who went by George P. Cronk, was an insurance man who was on the Los Angeles City Council from 1945 to 1952.-Biography:...

L. E. Timberlake
L. E. Timberlake
Leonard E. Timberlake , who went by L.E. Timberlake or Lee Timberlake, was a former railroad employee and a travel bureau owner who was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1945 to 1969.-Biography:...

Ed. J. Davenport  Meade McClanahan
Meade McClanahan
Meade McClanahan was an industrial engineer and businessman who was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 1945 but was ousted by voters in 1946 based upon his support for controversial preacher and political organizer Gerald L.K...

1946 John R. Roden
John R. Roden
John R. Roden was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 1946 to succeed Meade McClanahan, who was recalled from office. Roden served until mid-1947 and was defeated for reelection.-Biography:...

1947 Don A. Allen
Don A. Allen
Not to be confused with Charles A. Allen, Los Angeles City Council member, 1941–47.Don A. Allen, also known as Don A. Allen, Sr., was a member of the California State Assembly in the 1940s and 1950s and of the Los Angeles City Council between 1947 and 1956.-Biography:Allen was born on May 13, 1900...

Kenneth Hahn
Kenneth Hahn
Kenneth "Kenny" Hahn was a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for forty years, from 1952 to 1992. Hahn was on the Los Angeles City Council from 1947 to 1952. He was an ardent supporter of civil rights throughout the 1960s, and met Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1961.-Biography:Hahn...

Ernest E. Debs
Ernest E. Debs
Ernest Eugene Debs , who went by Ernest E. Debs, was a California State Assembly member from 1942 to 1947, a Los Angeles city councilman from 1947 to 1958 and a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from 1958 to 1974....

1948
1949 Edward R. Roybal
Edward R. Roybal
Edward Ross "Ed" Roybal was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council for thirteen years and of the U.S. House of Representatives for thirty years.-Biography:...

1950
1951 Earle D. Baker
Earle D. Baker
Not to be confused with George W. C. Baker, Los Angeles City Council member, 1931–35.Earle D. Baker was a prominent Hollywood food broker who was a member of the Los Angeles City Board of Education from 1949 to 1951 and of the Los Angeles City Council from 1951 until 1959.-Biography:Baker was born...

Charles Navarro
Charles Navarro
Charles Navarro , born Charles Navarro Guarino, was a Los Angeles, California, City Council member between 1951 and 1961 and city controller from 1961 to 1977.-Biography:...

John S. Gibson, Jr.
John S. Gibson, Jr.
John S. Gibson, Jr. was a powerful San Pedro, California, politician who was on the Los Angeles City Council for thirty years between 1951 and 1981. He was the president of the council for sixteen of those years and was acting mayor when the mayor was out of the city...

1952
1953 Everett G. Burkhalter
Everett G. Burkhalter
Everett Glen Burkhalter , who went by Everett G. Burkhalter, was a film studio electrician who turned to politics in 1941 and became a member of the California State Assembly, the Los Angeles City Council and the U.S. Congress in the middle part of the 20th century.-Biography:Burkhalter was born in...

Robert M. Wilkinson
Robert M. Wilkinson
Robert M. Wilkinson was a political figure and lobbyist in the San Fernando Valley in California. He was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1953 to 1957 and from 1967 to 1979.-Biography:...

Rosalind Wiener Wyman
Rosalind Wiener Wyman
Rosalind Wiener Wyman is a California political figure who was the youngest person ever elected to the Los Angeles City Council and the second woman to serve there. She was influential in bringing the baseball Dodgers from Brooklyn, New York, to their new home in Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles...

Gordon Hahn
Gordon Hahn
Gordon R. Hahn was a member of the Los Angeles City Council and California State Assembly in the mid-20th Century.While on the council, he cast the decisive vote that brought the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles and was instrumental in the appointment of Gilbert Lindsay, who became the first...

Harriett Davenport
1954
1955 Ransom M. Callicott
Ransom M. Callicott
Ransom M. Callicott was president of the National Restaurant Association, co-founder of Meals for Millions and a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1955 until his death...

1956
1957 Patrick D. McGee
Patrick D. McGee
Patrick D. McGee was a Republican member of the California State Assembly from 1950 to 1957 and from 1966 until his death in 1970. He was a Los Angeles City Council member from 1957 to 1961, when he opposed the city's agreement to bring the Dodgers baseball team to a new stadium in Chavez...

James C. Corman
James C. Corman
James Charles Corman was a Los Angeles City Council member from 1957 to 1961 and a Democratic Congressman from California between 1961 and 1981.-General:...

Karl L. Rundberg
Karl L. Rundberg
Karl L. Rundberg was a Los Angeles City Council member between 1957 and 1965. He was convicted of accepting a bribe in 1967 when a member of the city's Harbor Commission and was placed on probation.-Biography:...

1958
1959 C. Lemoine Blanchard
C. Lemoine Blanchard
C. Lemoine Blanchard was a businessman who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1959 until 1963 and a board member of the national YMCA..-Biography:...

James Harvey Brown
James Harvey Brown
James Harvey Brown was a City Council member in Los Angeles, California, between 1959 and 1964 and then municipal court judge in that city from 1964 to 1985.-Biography:...

1960
1961 Thomas D. Shepard
Thomas D. Shepard
Thomas D. Shepard, or Tom Shepard, was a Los Angeles City Council member between 1961 and 1967. He left office when he was convicted of receiving a bribe, and he served time in state prison.-Biography:...

Ernani Bernardi
Ernani Bernardi
Ernani Bernardi , known also as Noni Bernardi, was a big-band musician turned politician in Los Angeles, California. He represented District 7 on the City Council there from 1961 to 1993—at 32 years the second-longest-serving council member in the history of the city...

Joe E. Hollingsworth
Joe E. Hollingsworth
Joseph E. Hollingsworth , who went by Joe E. Hollingsworth, was appointed in 1961 to replace Charles Navarro as Los Angeles City Council member for the racially mixed 10th district. He served for two years until he was ousted by retired policeman and future mayor Tom Bradley. He was the last...

1962 John P. Cassidy
John P. Cassidy
John P. Cassidy was a newspaperman and public relations practitioner who became a Los Angeles City Council member in District 12 between 1962 and 1967...

1963 Louis R. Nowell
Louis R. Nowell
Louis R. Nowell was a Los Angeles city fire captain who was elected to the City Council in the San Fernando Valley in 1963 and served until 1977. A conservative, he favored more growth in residential areas and opposed school busing for the purpose of racial integration. He pleaded no contest and...

James B. Potter, Jr.
James B. Potter, Jr.
James B. Potter, Jr. was a Los Angeles, California, City Council member between 1963 and 1971. A sales manager for a tool company, when elected to the City Council he became its youngest member at age 31...

Billy G. Mills
Billy G. Mills
Billy G. Mills is a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge and a former Los Angeles City Council member, serving from 1963 to 1974. He was one of the first three African-Americans elected to the council.-Biography:...

Gilbert W. Lindsay
Gilbert W. Lindsay
Gilbert W. Lindsay , also known as Gil Lindsay, was a Los Angeles, California, politician who worked his way up from City Hall janitor to become the city's first black City Council member and one of its most powerful elected officials...

Thomas Bradley
Tom Bradley (politician)
Thomas J. "Tom" Bradley was the 38th Mayor of Los Angeles, California, serving in that office from 1973 to 1993. He was the first and to date only African American mayor of Los Angeles...

1964
1965 Edmund D. Edelman
Edmund D. Edelman
Edmund D. Edelman was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1965 to 1974 and of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from 1975 to 1994...

Marvin Braude
Marvin Braude
Marvin Braude was a member of the Los Angeles City Council for 32 years, between 1965 and 1997—the third-longest-serving council member in the history of the city...

Paul H. Lamport
Paul H. Lamport
Paul H. Lamport was a Hollywood, California, developer and civic leader who was a Los Angeles City Council member between 1965 and 1969.-Family:...

1966 John Ferraro
John Ferraro
John Ferraro was the longest-serving Los Angeles City Council member in the history of the city—thirty-five years, from 1966 until his death in 2001—and the president of the council for fourteen of them...

1967 Robert M. Wilkinson
Robert M. Wilkinson
Robert M. Wilkinson was a political figure and lobbyist in the San Fernando Valley in California. He was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1953 to 1957 and from 1967 to 1979.-Biography:...

Arthur K. Snyder
Arthur K. Snyder
Arthur K. Snyder, also known as Art Snyder, was a Los Angeles, California, City Council member between 1967 and 1985 and later engaged in a private law practice.-Biography:...

1968
1969 Don Lorenzen Pat Russell
Pat Russell
Pat Russell was the fourth woman to serve on the Los Angeles, California, City Council and the first woman to be City Council president .-Biography:...

Robert Stevenson
1970
1971 Joel Wachs
Joel Wachs
Joel Wachs , was a Los Angeles, California, City Council member for thirty years and a three-time candidate for mayor of that city, who is now the president of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York City...

1972
1973 David S. Cunningham, Jr.
David S. Cunningham, Jr.
David Surmier Cunningham, Jr., or Dave Cunningham, is a business executive who was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 1973 to succeed Council Member Tom Bradley, who had been elected mayor that year...

1974 Robert C. Farrell
Robert C. Farrell
Robert C. Farrell was a journalist and a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1974 until 1991.-Biography:Farrell was born in Natchez, Mississippi, on October 1, 1936, and moved with his family to New Orleans and Newark, New Jersey, before settling in Los Angeles, where he attended Los...

1975 Zev Yaroslavsky
Zev Yaroslavsky
Zev Yaroslavsky is a Los Angeles County politician. He served on the Los Angeles City Council from 1975 until 1994, when he was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. He was preceded in both offices by Edmund D...

Peggy Stevenson
1976
1977 Bob Ronka
Bob Ronka
Bob Ronka was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from the San Fernando Valley's 1st District between 1977 and 1981. For a brief time he represented Leslie Van Houten in the Manson Family criminal murder case.-Biography:...

 
Joy Picus
1978
1979 Hal Bernson
Hal Bernson
Hal Bernson is an American politician who served as Los Angeles City Council member representing the 12th district. He served on the city council for 24 years, from 1979 until his retirement in 2003....

1980
1981 Howard Finn
Howard Finn
Howard Arthur Finn was a Los Angeles City Councilman from the 1st district. He served from 1981 to 1986 until he died in office afer a heart attack.-References:...

Joan Milke Flores
Joan Milke Flores
Joan Milke Flores is a former Los Angeles City Hall stenographer who served as Los Angeles City Councilwoman for the 15th district from 1981 to 1993. Flores ran in 1992 as the Republican candidate for the U.S. Representative from California to represent the 36th district. However, she lost to Jane...

1982
1983
1984
1985 Michael Woo
Michael Woo
Michael K. Woo, also known as Mike Woo, is an educator who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1985 to 1993. He is now dean of the College of Environmental Design at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.-Family:...

Richard Alatorre
Richard Alatorre
Richard Alatorre is an American politician from California. He served as a prominent member of the California State Assembly from 1973 to 1985, and as a noted member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1985 to 1999.-Background:...

1986
1987 Gloria Molina
Gloria Molina
Jesus Gloria Molina is an American politician, a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, and the current chairwoman of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.-Background and career:...

Ruth Galanter
Ruth Galanter
Ruth Galanter is an American politician and a Los Angeles councilwoman from 1987 until 2003.-Education:Galanter holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan and a Master of City Planning degree from the Yale University School of Art and Architecture.-Career:Prior to her 1987...

Nate Holden
Nate Holden
Nate Holden is a Los Angeles County politician who served four years in the California State Senate and 16 years on the Los Angeles City Council....

1988
1989
1990
1991
1992 Mike Hernandez
Mike Hernández
Mike Hernandez was a Los Angeles, California City Councilman. In 1997 Hernandez was arrested and pleaded guilty to purchasing and possessing cocaine. Because he struck a plea agreement whereby he agreed to seek treatment, the arrest was not in his record, and he was not required to resign his seat...

Mark Ridley-Thomas
Mark Ridley-Thomas
Mark Ridley-Thomas , often referred to by his initials, MRT, is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for District 2, who succeeded Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite Burke...

Rita Walters
Rita Walters
Rita Walters currently serves on the Board of Library Commissioners for the Los Angeles Public Library. Prior to this position, she served on the Los Angeles City Council representing the 9th district. During that time, she chaired the Arts, Health & Humanities Committee...

1993 Laura Chick
1994 Richard Alarcón
Richard Alarcón
Richard Anthony Alarcón is a California politician who is currently a Los Angeles City Councilman. A Democrat, he has previously served in the California State Senate and, for approximately three months, in the California State Assembly.Alarcón first served as an assistant to Los Angeles Mayor Tom...

Jackie Goldberg
Jackie Goldberg
Jackie Goldberg is an American politician and teacher, and a member of the Democratic Party. She is a former member of the California State Assembly....

Rudy Svorinich
Rudy Svorinich
Rudy Svorinich, Jr. is a Republican who served on the Los Angeles City Council representing the 15th district. A resident of San Pedro, his diverse district also included the communities of Watts, Wilmington, Harbor City, Harbor Gateway, and San Pedro. He was elected to the council in 1993 and...

1995 Michael Feuer
Michael Feuer
Michael Nelson Feuer is an American politician and lawyer. He has been elected to three two-year terms in the California State Assembly, representing the 42nd Assembly District. The district includes Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, and parts of West Los Angeles...

1996
1997 Cindy Miscikowski
Cindy Miscikowski
Cindy Miscikowski represented the 11th District on the Los Angeles City Council for two full terms from 1997 through 2005. Previously, she was an aide to Councilman Marvin Braude and the Executive Director of the Skirball Cultural Center in its beginning stages...

1998
1999 Vacant Nick Pacheco
Nick Pacheco
Lauro "Nick" Pacheco, Jr. is an American attorney, politician, and a member of the Democratic Party. Pacheco served as a member of the Los Angeles City Council . Prior to serving on the Los Angeles City Council, Nick Pacheco served as an Elected Charter Reform Commissioner for the same district...

2000 Alex Padilla
Alex Padilla
Alejandro "Alex" Padilla is a California State Senator. He was elected as the state senator for California's 20th State Senate district in November 2006 and was inaugurated in early December. Prior to serving in the Senate he served 7½ years on the Los Angeles City Council representing the 7th...

2001 Ed Reyes
Ed Reyes
Eduardo Perez Reyes is an American politician. He is a member of the Los Angeles City Council, representing the 1st district. Reyes was re-elected in 2005 to serve a second Council term, capturing 78 percent of the votes. He is a member of the Democratic Party...

Dennis P. Zine
Dennis P. Zine
-Pre-political career:Councilman Zine is a former Los Angeles Police Department sergeant and a current reserve officer. He worked Valley Traffic Detail and served as liaison for Deputy Chief Mark Kroeker in the aftermath of the 1992 riots. He was honored as officer of the year by the California...

Tom LaBonge
Tom LaBonge
Thomas J. "Tom" LaBonge is an American politician. He is a member of the Los Angeles City Council representing the 4th district. He has served since 2001, taking over the position upon the death of John Ferraro. The district represents a wide diversity of incomes and neighborhoods...

Jack Weiss
Jack Weiss
Jack Stephen Weiss is an American politician. He is a former member of the Los Angeles City Council representing the 5th district from 2001 to 2009. He previously served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Central District of California from 1994 to 2000...

Jan Perry
Jan Perry
Jan C. Perry is an American municipal politician. She is currently representing the 9th district of the Los Angeles City Council. She is a member of the Democratic Party.-City Council elections:...

Eric Garcetti
Eric Garcetti
Eric Michael Garcetti is an American municipal politician. He is a member of the Los Angeles City Council. He serves as its President and represents the 13th District. He is the son of the former Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti. He is a member of the Democratic Party.-Early...

Janice Hahn
Janice Hahn
Janice Kay Hahn is the U.S. Representative from California's 36th congressional district and a member of the Democratic Party. She was previously a Los Angeles City Councilwoman representing the 15th district from 2001 to 2011...

2002 Wendy Greuel
Wendy Greuel
Wendy Jane Greuel is a municipal American politician. She is the 18th and current Los Angeles City Controller and former President Pro Tempore of the Los Angeles City Council representing the 2nd District, which includes portions of the San Fernando Valley.-Early Life, Education, and Early...

2003 Tony Cardenas
Tony Cardenas
Tony Cardenas is an American politician. He is currently a member of the Los Angeles City Council, representing the Sixth Council District which covers portions of the southeast San Fernando Valley, including the communities of Arleta, Pacoima, Sun Valley, North Hollywood, Panorama City, Van Nuys...

Bernard Parks Martin Ludlow
Martin Ludlow
Martin Ludlow was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council, representing the 10th district. He resigned effective June 30, 2005, when he became the head of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor. He pleaded guilty in state and federal courts the same year to charges that he had...

Greig Smith
Greig Smith
Greig Smith is an American politician. He is a Los Angeles City Councilman, representing the 12th District, which includes Granada Hills, Northridge and other parts of the Western San Fernando Valley. He was elected to the LA City Council in 2003 defeating LA School Board member Julie Kornstein in...

Antonio Villaraigosa
Antonio Villaraigosa
Antonio Ramón Villaraigosa , born Antonio Ramón Villar, Jr., is the 41st and current Mayor of Los Angeles, California, the third Mexican American to have ever held office in the city of Los Angeles and the first in over 130 years. He is also the current president of the United States Conference of...

2004
2005 Herb Wesson
Herb Wesson
Herb J. Wesson, Jr. is an American politician. He currently serves as a Los Angeles City Councilman, representing the 10th district. He served in the State Assembly representing the 47th district from 1998 until 2004. He served as Speaker of the California State Assembly from 2002 until 2004...

Bill Rosendahl
Bill Rosendahl
William Joseph "Bill" Rosendahl is an American politician. He is serving on the Los Angeles City Council, representing Council District 11. He is a member of the Democratic Party.-Biography:...

José Huizar
José Huizar
José Luis Huizar is an American elected official and a member of the Los Angeles City Council representing District 14. He was elected on November 8, 2005 in a special election to fill the seat vacated by current Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and was reelected to a full four-year term in...

2006 Vacant
2007 Richard Alarcón
Richard Alarcón
Richard Anthony Alarcón is a California politician who is currently a Los Angeles City Councilman. A Democrat, he has previously served in the California State Senate and, for approximately three months, in the California State Assembly.Alarcón first served as an assistant to Los Angeles Mayor Tom...

2008
2009 Paul Koretz
Paul Koretz
Paul Koretz is an American politician. He is currently a member of the Los Angeles City Council, representing the Fifth Council District. He was previously a member of the California State Assembly and the West Hollywood City Council...

2010 Paul Krekorian
Paul Krekorian
Paul Krekorian is an American politician and member of the Los Angeles City Council representing the second district. He was previously a member of the California State Assembly, and the Assistant Majority Floor Leader representing California's 43rd Assembly District...


Original City Council (1850)
Consisted of 8 members including Morris L. Goodman
Morris L. Goodman
Morris L. Goodman was the first Jewish Los Angeles city councilman. He served from 1850 to 1854. Goodman was the sole American on the council at that time, the other council members being Mexican nationals. In 1854, he became a deputy sheriff in the San Fernando Valley.-Resources:*"Holidays in...

 (served 1850-4); He was the only American on the council—everyone else was Mexican.

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