Mike Feuer

• Biography:

  Assemblyman Mike Feuer was elected to the California State Assembly in 2006 to represent the 42nd Assembly District, which includes West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Century City, Westwood, Bel Air, Brentwood, Hollywood, Hancock Park, Los Feliz, North Hollywood, Valley Village, Toluca Lake, Universal City, Studio City and Sherman Oaks.

  Assemblyman Feuer was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in a 1995 special election. He chaired the City Council’s Budget and Finance Committee and led the Council’s committees on business tax reform, children’s and seniors’ issues, and ethics in government.

  Before serving in local elected office, Assemblyman Feuer served as director of Bet Tzedek Legal Services, where he oversaw free legal representation for more than 50,000 elderly, poor and disabled clients. According to the Los Angeles Daily Journal, Assemblyman Feuer transformed Bet Tzedek into a “national success story” by establishing programs to help Alzheimer’s patients, victims of the Northridge earthquake and L.A. civil unrest, and Holocaust survivors striving to obtain restitution.

  Assemblyman Feuer has taught at UCLA’s School of Public Affairs and law school. He practiced law at two of California’s leading firms and served as a judicial clerk on the California Supreme Court.

  Assemblyman Feuer graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from Harvard College and cum laude from Harvard Law School. He and his wife, Gail Ruderman Feuer, have been married for 22 years and have two teenage children.