Los Angeles City Attorney

The Los Angeles City Attorney is an elected official who serves as the city government’s lawyer and as a criminal prosecutor for misdemeanor violations. The Los Angeles County District Attorney prosecutes felonies. The city attorney is elected for four years, and the city charter requires the city attorney to be a lawyer qualified to practice in the California courts for five years preceding his or her election. In addition the General Counsel Division of the office provides legal counsel for the city and represents it in civil actions.

List of Los Angeles city attorneys

Name	Term
Benjamin Hayes	1850–1851
William G. Dryden	1851–1852
Joseph Lancaster Brent	1852–1853
Charles E. Carr	1853
Joseph Lancaster Brent	1853
Isaac Hartman	1854–1855
Lewis Granger	1855–1856
Cameron E. Thom	1856–1858
James H. Lader	1858–1859
Samuel F. Reynolds	1859–1861
James H. Lader	1861–1862
Myer Joseph Newmark	1862
Alfred Chapman	1862–1865
James H. Lader	1865
Andrew J. King	1866–1868
Charles H. Larrabee	1868 (did not serve)
William McPherson	1868–1870
Frank H. Howard	1870–1872
Aurelius W. Hutton	1872–1876
John Franklin Godfrey	1876–1880
Henry T. Hazard	1880–1882
Walter D. Stephenson	1882–1884
James Wilfred McKinley	1884–1886
J.C. Daly	1886–1888
Charles H. McFarland	1888–1894
William Ellsworth Dunn	1894–1898
Walter F. Haas	1898–1900
W.B. Mathews	1900–1906
Leslie R. Hewitt	1906–1910
John W. Shenk	1910–1913
Alfred Lee Stephens	1913–1919
Charles S. Burnell	1919–1921
Jess E. Stephens	1921–1929
Erwin P. Warner	1929–1933
Ray L. Chesebro	1933–1953
Roger Arnebergh	1953–1973
Burt Pines	1973–1981
Ira Reiner	1981–1985
James Hahn	1985–2001
Rocky Delgadillo	2001–2009
Carmen Trutanich	2009–2013
Mike Feuer	2013–present

External links

• Official website of the City Attorney