CANDIDATES FILING FOR APRIL 9 ELECTION

The Los Angeles City Clerk’s Office has announced that the following 106 candidates have filed a Declaration of Intention to run in the April 9 election. Candidates have until Feb. 2 to collect a minimum of 1,000 signatures of registered voters in their district or pay a $300 filing fee and collect 500 signatures. Descriptions are the candidates’ own.

Members of the City Council

District 2

Mary Lou Holte, activist, crime fighter

Peter A. Lynch, legislative advocate

Tom Paterson, homeowner association president

Joel Wachs, councilman

District 4

Fabian Asensio, community activist, driver

Barney Feldman, businessman

John Ferraro, councilman

Gregory E. Roberts, public interest activist

District 6

J. Wilson Bowman, educational consultant

Marilyn K. Cole, community activist

Marjorie Ann Colon, community leader, entrepreneur

Donald R. Conkrite, fire inspector

Michael Anthony del Rio, activist, businessman, consultant

Mervin Evans, business development consultant

Rex Keith Frankel, journalist, environmental activist

Ruth Basia Galanter, councilwoman

Salvatore Grammatico, realtor, community activist

Mary Lee Gray, supervisors’ senior deputy

Eric-Douglas Johnson, business owner

Charles Albert Mattison, minister, dentist

Matthew L. Olds, attorney

Tavis Eugene Smiley, public service

Pearl E. White, volunteer

District 8

Gregory Jay Coleman, telephone operator

Maybelline Griffin, county children’s administrator

Jonathan Leonard, retired firefighter, businessman

Martin G. Ludlow, employee representative

Kerman Maddox, community college instructor

Norma Celestine Mena, business consultant

Billy Mills, attorney

Carolyn Moore, social worker consultant

Cornelius A. Pettus, businessman

Mark Ridley-Thomas, civil rights leader

Angela Tate, entrepreneur, entertainer, minister

Roderick Devon Wright, government affairs officer

District 10

Bobbie Hodges-Betts, community activist, organizer

Nathan Nathaniel Holden, councilman

Esther M. Lofton, educator, administrator

Terry Barnett O’Neal, president, San Vicente Watch

District 12

Hal Bernson, councilman

Robert A. Birch, community activist

Allen Robert Hecht, businessman, environmental advocate

Arthur “Larry” Kagele, police detective supervisor

Julianna Korenstein, member of the board of education

Ronald E. Michelman, attorney, arbitrator, trustee

Walter N. Prince, businessman, environmentalist, activist

Leonard Shapiro, publisher, community activist

District 14

Richard Alatorre, councilman

David Ralph Diaz, environmental planner

Martin GutieRuiz, community organizer

John Lucero, corporate president

Miguel G. Mendivil, teacher

Lauro Pacheco Jr., political consultant

Joseph Pietroforte, disabled veteran

Members of the Board of Education

District 1

Donald Baker, teacher

Barbara Marie Boudreaux, elementary school principal

Arnold Carl Butler, educator, businessman

Sterling Delone, teacher

Charles E. Dickerson, attorney

Donald Fay Jones, school district employee

Celestine W. Palmer, educator

Charles D. Rousseau, public service, teacher

Madison Theodore Shockley, II, minister

Marion Estelle Sims, educator, clinical psychologist

Chetera Gayle Ingram Watson, educator, parent, activist

District 3

Stanley Bunyan, retired teacher, principal

Jeffrey P. Horton, teacher

Mario Anthony Pompa Jr., teacher, community organizer

Anthony “Tony” Trias, educator, businessman

Debra Pease Wehbe, elementary principal, businesswoman

District 5

Richard E. Ferraro, educator

Leticia Quezada, member of the Board of Education

District 7

Warren T. Furutani, member of the Board of Education

Jeff Mitchel Gould, vocational education

Timothy E. McKinney, carpenter

Members of the Board of Trustees, Community Colleges

Office No. 1

Wallace B. Knox, member of the Board of Trustees

Alice Hilda Lane, journalist

Pat Moser, disabled, senior advocate

Joe Rudynski, consultant, student affairs

Elizabeth K. Stone, airline worker

Richard M. Valdez, educational consultant

Office No. 3

John K. Evenhuis, community college student

Elizabeth Michael, county committeewoman, businesswoman

Felix F. Schmittdiel, health educator, businessman

Julia Li Wu, community college trustee

Office No. 5

Armando E. Azarloza, public affairs executive

Michael R. Borrego, paraprofessional, campus aide

Benjamin D. Fiering, railroad switchman

Brad Rayburn Hamill, aerospace engineer

Peter Ireland, environmental agency executive

John J. Jamgotchian, attorney

Paul Cohen Koretz, city councilman, educator

Patrick Dennis McGuire, educator, business person

Steven Allen Nissen, college educator, attorney

Joseph William Orozco, businessman

Gloria Elisabeth Rothenberg, community activist, businesswoman

Hal James Styles Jr., investment counselor, educator

Kenneth S. Washington, retired college administrator

Howard O. Watts, disabled veteran

William Douglas Zuke, disability advocate

Office No. 7

Gerald C. Broderson, community crime fighter

Donald Wayne Dorsey, realtor, businessman

Mark Isler, teacher, business owner

Marc Neal Josephson, medical historian

Jules Kimmet, retired college employee

David Lopez-Lee, member of the Board of Trustees