Janice Hahn
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Janice Kay Hahn (born March 30, 1952) is an American politician serving as the member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from the 4th district since 2016.
A member of the Democratic Party, she was a U.S. Representative from California from 2011 to 2016, elected in the 36th congressional district until 2013 and later in the 44th congressional district.
She was previously a member of the Los Angeles City Council, representing the 15th district from 2001 to 2011.
From 1997 to 1999, she served as an elected representative on the Los Angeles Charter Reform Commission.On July 12, 2011, Hahn won a special election for Congress to fill the seat vacated by Democrat Jane Harman.
She defeated Republican Craig Huey, a Tea Party-backed direct marketer from the Torrance area, with 55 percent of the vote to Huey's 45 percent.
In February 2015, Hahn announced she was retiring from Congress to run for the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
In the general election, Hahn defeated Steve Napolitano to succeed Don Knabe to become the next Los Angeles Supervisor from the 4th district.
She was sworn in on December 5, 2016.
Early life and education
Hahn was born in Los Angeles and raised in a politically involved family. She is the daughter of Ramona Belle (née Fox) and Kenneth Frederick Hahn, a career member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors who also served on the Los Angeles City Council.
Her uncle, Gordon Hahn, was a member of the California State Assembly and a Los Angeles City Councilman from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. Her brother, James Hahn, served as Los Angeles City Controller from 1981 to 1985, City Attorney from 1985 to 2001 and Mayor of Los Angeles from 2001 until 2005. Hahn's maternal grandparents served as missionaries in Japan in the 1920s and 1930s.
Hahn attended Abilene Christian University in Texas, earning a Bachelor of Science in education in 1974.
Personal life
Hahn is a lifelong resident of Los Angeles and lives in San Pedro. She is the mother of three children, the grandmother of five, and a member of the Churches of Christ.
Early career
She studied at the Good News Academy, a private school in Westchester, from 1974 to 1978. Public Affairs Manager, Secretary of Community Outreach for Western Waste Industries, and Director of Marketing for the Alexander Haagen Company among her previous ventures in the private sector include Public Affairs, Region Manager of Southern California Edison from 1995 to 2000; Vice President for Prudential Securities in Public Finance; and Director of Community Outreach for Western Waste Industries.
Hahn was elected to represent the Fifteenth District of the Los Angeles Charter Reform Commission from 1997 to 1999. As a Commissioner, she campaigned for several of the amendments that were included in the new charter, including Area Planning Commissions, local representation on the citizen commissions governing Los Angeles International Airport and the Port of Los Angeles, as well as a system of neighborhood councils.
Jane Harman, the former speaker of the United States Congressman, declined to run for re-election in 1998, opting instead to run for Governor of California. Hahn went on to win Harman then ran for the Democratic nomination to replace Harman, but Republican state Assemblyman Steven T. Kuykendall defeated him 49%-47% in the general election.