Gil Garcetti
| Gil Garcetti | |
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Garcetti in 2010
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| 40th District Attorney of Los Angeles County | |
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In office 1992–2000 |
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| Preceded by | Ira Reiner |
| Succeeded by | Steve Cooley |
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| Born |
Gilbert Salvadore Iberri Garcetti August 5, 1941 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Sukey Roth |
| Children |
Eric Garcetti (son) Dana Garcetti |
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Gilbert Salvadore Iberri Garcetti (born August 5, 1941), best known as Gil Garcetti, is an American politician. He served as Los Angeles County's 40th district attorney for two terms, from 1992 until November 7, 2000. He is the father of Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti.
Garcetti is the son of Salvador Garcetti and Juanita Iberri. Salvador Garcetti was born in Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico and brought to the United States as a child after his father, Massimo Garcetti, a judge and emigrant to Mexico from Italy, was hanged during the Mexican Revolution. Garcetti's mother, Juanita Iberri, was born in Arizona, one of nineteen children born to a father whose parents were from Sonora, Mexico, and a mother born in Arizona to an Irish father, Christopher Thomas Baine, and a Mexican mother.
Garcetti received a bachelor's degree in management from the University of Southern California and a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Los Angeles. Before becoming district attorney, Garcetti served within the office for over twenty years, from trial prosecutor to managerial positions and eventually becoming chief deputy district attorney for his predecessor, Ira Reiner (district attorney from 1984 to 1992). Reiner declined to run for a third term, and Garcetti won the 1992 election.
Entering the 1992 elections, LA County was still recovering from the aftermath of the highly publicized 1991 Rodney King beating at the hands of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and the massive unrest of the 1992 LA Riots. His first term was dominated by his office's prosecution of the O.J. Simpson double-murder trial. The long, costly criminal trial ended with a "not guilty" verdict on October 3, 1995. Despite the setback, Garcetti won re-election in 1996, narrowly defeating challenger John Lynch.
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