Lili Bosse

Lili Bosse
Official portrait of Lili Bosse
73rd Mayor of Beverly Hills
In office 2014–2015
Preceded by	John A. Mirisch
Succeeded by	Julian Gold
Personal details
Nationality	American
Spouse(s)	Jon Bosse
Children	2
Parents	Jack Toren Rosalia (Orenstein) Toren
Alma mater	University of Southern California
Profession	Politician, philanthropist
Religion	Reform Judaism

Lili Bosse is an American politician and philanthropist. The daughter of Holocaust survivors, she has supported many Jewish causes in the United States and Israel. She served as the Mayor of Beverly Hills, California in its centennial year, from March 2014 to March 2015. During her tenure, she spearheaded the weekly "Walk With the Mayor" for residents, supported the boycott of the Beverly Hills Hotel owned by the Sultan of Brunei, and promoted trade with China for the luxury industry. In March 2017, she began her second term as the mayor of Beverly Hills.

Lili Bosse (née Toren) grew up on South Maple Drive in Beverly Hills, California. She is the only child of Holocaust survivors. Her father, Jack Toren, died in 1993. Her mother, Rosalia (Orenstein) Toren, born in Poland, escaped from the Auschwitz concentration camp and wrote two books about her experiences: Destiny in 1991 and A New Beginning in 1997; she died in February 2015. Her parents met in Israel shortly after the Second World War and decided to immigrate to the United States.

Bosse was educated at the Beverly Vista School and the Beverly Hills High School. She went on to graduate from the University of Southern California.

Bosse served on the Beverly Hills Traffic and Parking Commission from 1997 to 2002, and on the Beverly Hills Planning Commission from 2007 to 2011. She was elected to a four-year term on the five-member Beverly Hills City Council in 2011. She was appointed by the City Council to serve a one-year term as Vice Mayor in 2013, and then for a succeeding one-year term as Mayor in 2014.

Bosse was sworn in as Mayor on March 25, 2014, by actor Sidney Poitier in a ceremony at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. Poitier had also sworn her in as Vice Mayor in 2013. One of her first actions as Mayor was to announce a "Healthy City Initiative", which aimed to make Beverly Hills "the healthiest city in the world".