José Huizar
| José Huizar | |
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| Member of the Los Angeles City Council from the 14th district | |
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Assumed office 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Antonio Villaraigosa |
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| Born |
September 10, 1968 Zacatecas, Mexico |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Richelle Ríos |
| Residence | Los Angeles, California |
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UC Berkeley (B.A.) UCLA School of Law (J.D.) Princeton University (M.P.P.) |
| Website | cd14 |
José Luis Huizar (born September 10, 1968) is an American elected official in California. He is a member of the Los Angeles City Council representing District 14.
His district covers central Downtown Los Angeles, as well as Boyle Heights, El Sereno, Hermon, Monterey Hills, Highland Park, Eagle Rock, and Glassell Park.
Huizar was elected on November 8, 2005 in a special election to fill the seat vacated by the then new Mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa. He was reelected to a full four-year term in 2007 and again in 2011. In 2015, he was re-elected but to a 5 1/2 years, due to the passage of Charter Amendments 1 and 2. The amendments will change elections in the city of L.A. and the LAUSD to even-number years beginning in the year 2020, thereby extending his new term by 1 1/2 years.
Huizar was born in a village called Los Morales in the municipality of Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico, son of Simón Huizar, who was a migrant farm worker and later a machinist. His mother Isidra Serrano was a meatpacking plant worker.
He immigrated with his parents to the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles at the age of three, attended Euclid Elementary, Stevenson Junior High School, Hollenbeck Junior High School and Salesian High School before attending University of California, Berkeley as an undergraduate. He received a master's degree in Public Affairs and Urban Planning from Princeton University and a Juris Doctorate from UCLA School of Law. He became a US Citizen while in college. In 2004, he became the first Latino to serve on the Princeton Board of Trustees.
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