Mitchell Englander
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Council member Mitchell Englander
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| President pro tempore of the Los Angeles City Council | |
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Assumed office July 2, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Ed Reyes |
| Member of the Los Angeles City Council from the 12th District | |
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Assumed office July 1, 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Greig Smith |
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| Born | 1970 (age 47) San Fernando Valley |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Jayne Englander |
| Residence | Granada Hills |
| Alma mater | Los Angeles Police Academy |
| Website | cd12 |
Mitchell Englander (born July 25, 1970) is a member of the Los Angeles City Council, representing District 12 in the San Fernando Valley. Currently the district covers the Northwest Valley communities of Chatsworth, Granada Hills, Northridge, Porter Ranch, Sherwood Forest, West Hills, and parts of Reseda and North Hills. Beginning on July 1, 2012, with new boundaries from redistricting, Englander represents the West, Northwest, north-central, and North San Fernando Valley. He is the only member of the city council who is registered as Republican. He calls himself a fiscal conservative. He came into office July 1, 2011.
Englander was born in 1970 in West Hills in the San Fernando Valley. According to an interview with the Los Angeles Daily News, his parents separated when he was 5 years old, and his mother, Linda, a real-estate agent, "worked two jobs, but lost a home to foreclosure." They lived in Canoga Park with his uncle Michael, whose janitorial firm Englander worked for as a teenager. Englander attended college in Arizona but returned to California without graduating in order to care for his ailing mother, who died of a brain tumor.
In 1994, his uncle Michael, who Englander said was a father figure for him, was shot and killed in a gang-related robbery. Englander became a Los Angeles Police Department reservist in 2005 the same day his uncle was killed, Englander's older sister Natalie suffered an asthma attack and fell into a coma. She was "rushed to an emergency room whose doors were mistakenly locked." She wasn't able to receive medical aid in time and "awoke with brain damage." She lived with the Englander family for a decade before she died.
Englander served as chief of staff to City Councilman Greig Smith from 2003 to 2009, in Los Angeles City Council District 12, then in the Northwest San Fernando Valley. In September 2009 Englander launched his campaign to succeed Smith, who had announced retirement upon his term's end.
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