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Board of Governors Meeting- Meet Newly Elected Supervisor 3rd District Sheila Kuehl

January 21, 2015 @ 8:00 am - 9:30 am

Dear LAEDC Members,
 
Please join us for our upcoming Board of Governors meeting on:
 
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Networking Breakfast 7:30am
Meeting 8:00am-9:30am
 
Supervisor Kuehl Official PhotoSupervisor Sheila James Kuehl, representing Los Angeles County’s Third District, was elected on November 4, 2014 and assumed office on December 1.
She previously served eight years in the State Senate and six years in the State Assembly. She is the Founding Director of the Public Policy Institute at Santa Monica College and, in 2012, was Regents’ Professor in Public Policy at UCLA.
She was the first woman in California history to be named Speaker Pro Tempore of the Assembly, and the first openly gay or lesbian person to be elected to the California Legislature. Kuehl served as chair of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, Natural Resources and Water Committee, and Budget Subcommittee on Water, Energy and Transportation, as well as the Assembly Judiciary Committee.
She authored 171 bills that were signed into law, including legislation to establish paid family leave, establish nurse to patient ratios in hospitals; protect the Santa Monica Mountains and prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender and disability in the workplace and sexual orientation in education. She fought to establish true universal health insurance in California.
Prior to her election to the Legislature, as a public-interest attorney Kuehl drafted and fought to get into California law more than 40 pieces of legislation relating to children, families, women, and domestic violence. She was a law professor at Loyola, UCLA and USC Law Schools and co-founded and served as managing attorney of the California Women’s Law Center.
Supervisor Kuehl graduated from Harvard Law School in 1978. In her youth, she was known for her portrayal of the irrepressible Zelda Gilroy in the television series, “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.”
 
Agenda & details to follow.
We encourage you to bring a non-member guest!
*Please note this event is open to Corporate Level members and above. 

Details

Date:
January 21, 2015
Time:
8:00 am - 9:30 am
Event Category:

Organizers

Sunie Quintanilla
Sunie Quintanilla

Venue

California Club
538 South Flower Street, Second Floor Dining Room
Los Angeles,CA90071United States
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Phone
2132364864
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