Ruth Galanter
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Ruth Galanter is an American politician and a Los Angeles
councilwoman
from 1987 until 2003.
As a councilwoman represented communities on the West Side, including Crenshaw, and—after being redistricted in 2002—the Northeast San Fernando Valley. After departing the City Council Galanter was the Gateway to L.A. Blue Ribbon Commission. She also served as Council President and President Pro Tempore.
Gallanter involved herself in environmental issues, including water supply, energy conservation, consumer recycling, and wetlands protection. Her accomplishments included “low-flow” toilet requirements, resolving a decades-long controversy over water from Mono Lake; implementation of fluoridation of the city's water supply; and City recycing. As Chair of the Council's Commerce, Energy and Natural Resources Committee—which oversees the city-owned utility, airport network, & harbor—she helped expand the port's capacity, opposed expansion of LAX (one of LA's 3 airports),& brought the DWP into a deregulated marketplace.
In her original Sixth District, Galanter also brought the first supermarket in 30 years to Crenshaw; obtained long delayed soundproofing for homes in Westchester; moved forward the Venice Coastal Plan, secured the improvement of Venice Blvd, and the restoration of the Venice canals (all projects that had languished for decades); protected the Ballona Wetlands from development & reduced the size of Playa Vista, while also adding low- & moderate-income housing & requiring traffic mitigations; preserved the Venice Pier (when it was slated for demolition) & set in motion plans for the Venice beach skatepark (finally opened in 2009).
Galanter worked in public health as an organizer with the Health Policy Advisory Center in New York, as editor of the Health Law Newsletter in Los Angeles, and sat on the editorial board of the American Journal of Public Health.
She has been recognized by the US EPA, the National Recycling Coalition, and the Los Angeles County Dental Association.
During 2005-2006 Galanter was Distinguished Scholar in Los Angeles Urban Research at Loyola Marymount University.
Galanter is the owner of Galater and Co. She is a Distinguished Scholar for Urban Research at Loyola Marymount University. She is also a columnist for the Los Angeles Daily News.
Galanter is a member of The Trusteeship for the Betterment of Women and serves on the board of Pacific Resident Theater, the California Environmental Trust, and the Venice Canals Foundation and the advisory board of LA Shares. She was a founding board member of Workplace Hollywood.
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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 election to the City Council, Galanter was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown to the South Coast Regional Coastal Commission in 1977, becoming its chair, & serving until the body's dissolution in 1981. She also served as a consultant to the State Coastal Conservancy and Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy.As a councilwoman represented communities on the West Side, including Crenshaw, and—after being redistricted in 2002—the Northeast San Fernando Valley. After departing the City Council Galanter was the Gateway to L.A. Blue Ribbon Commission. She also served as Council President and President Pro Tempore.
Gallanter involved herself in environmental issues, including water supply, energy conservation, consumer recycling, and wetlands protection. Her accomplishments included “low-flow” toilet requirements, resolving a decades-long controversy over water from Mono Lake; implementation of fluoridation of the city's water supply; and City recycing. As Chair of the Council's Commerce, Energy and Natural Resources Committee—which oversees the city-owned utility, airport network, & harbor—she helped expand the port's capacity, opposed expansion of LAX (one of LA's 3 airports),& brought the DWP into a deregulated marketplace.
In her original Sixth District, Galanter also brought the first supermarket in 30 years to Crenshaw; obtained long delayed soundproofing for homes in Westchester; moved forward the Venice Coastal Plan, secured the improvement of Venice Blvd, and the restoration of the Venice canals (all projects that had languished for decades); protected the Ballona Wetlands from development & reduced the size of Playa Vista, while also adding low- & moderate-income housing & requiring traffic mitigations; preserved the Venice Pier (when it was slated for demolition) & set in motion plans for the Venice beach skatepark (finally opened in 2009).
Galanter worked in public health as an organizer with the Health Policy Advisory Center in New York, as editor of the Health Law Newsletter in Los Angeles, and sat on the editorial board of the American Journal of Public Health.
She has been recognized by the US EPA, the National Recycling Coalition, and the Los Angeles County Dental Association.
During 2005-2006 Galanter was Distinguished Scholar in Los Angeles Urban Research at Loyola Marymount University.
Galanter is the owner of Galater and Co. She is a Distinguished Scholar for Urban Research at Loyola Marymount University. She is also a columnist for the Los Angeles Daily News.
Galanter is a member of The Trusteeship for the Betterment of Women and serves on the board of Pacific Resident Theater, the California Environmental Trust, and the Venice Canals Foundation and the advisory board of LA Shares. She was a founding board member of Workplace Hollywood.