Janice Hahn

Hahn's maternal grandparents served as missionaries in Japan in the 1920s and 1930s.

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.

Janice Kay Hahn (born March 30, 1952) is an American politician serving as a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from the 4th district since 2016.

Hahn attended Abilene Christian University in Texas, earning a Bachelor of Science in education in 1974.

She taught at the Good News Academy, a private school in Westchester from 1974 to 1978.

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.

Her other work in the private sector has included Public Affairs Region Manager at Southern California Edison from 1995 to 2000; Vice President for Prudential Securities in Public Finance, Director of Community Outreach for Western Waste Industries, and Director of Marketing for the Alexander Haagen Company.

From 1997 to 1999, she served as an elected representative on the Los Angeles Charter Reform Commission.

Hahn was elected to represent the Fifteenth District on the Los Angeles Charter Reform Commission, serving from 1997 to 1999.

As a Commissioner, she fought for many of the reforms 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, and a system of neighborhood councils.

In 1998, U.S. Congresswoman Jane Harman declined to run for re-election, choosing instead to run for Governor of California.

Hahn then won the Democratic nomination to succeed Harman, but lost the general election to Republican State Assemblyman Steven T. Kuykendall 49%-47%.

She was previously a member of the Los Angeles City Council, representing the 15th district from 2001 to 2011.

Hahn served on the Los Angeles City Council, representing the 15th District, from 2001 to 2011.

Hahn walked the picket lines with unionized dockworkers in 2002.

After the Bush administration suggested it would intervene in the labor dispute by using government troops to operate the ports, Hahn urged non-intervention.

"'There's no room for the federal government. There's only one reason for them to get involved, and that's to break the union', she said."

She was the leading force on the City Council behind both the passage of a living wage ordinance for the hotel workers along Century Boulevard near Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and the provision of improved health benefits to LAX employees.

Hahn cites her efforts to clean up the Port of Los Angeles as one of her main accomplishments while on the City Council.

The 2006 Clean Air Action Plan, which she and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa pushed forward, set a goal of reducing pollution by 45 percent within five years and shifted the movement of goods at the ports to off-peak traffic hours.

Hahn supported the addition of the Clean Trucks Program that requires the 16,000 diesel trucks serving the ports meet 2007 EPA emission standards within five years.

She has noted that the ports have been Southern California's largest emitter of greenhouse gasses and diesel emissions and that the Clean Trucks Program also provides for improved working conditions, wages and benefits for port truckers.

Prior to the Clean Air Action Plan, she had already shifted about 35% of goods to be moved during off-peak hours.

Hahn also helped advance redevelopment projects at the Port of Los Angeles in both San Pedro and Wilmington.

On the City Council, Hahn was a major proponent of gang prevention, intervention, and suppression programs.

She led the campaign to pass Measure A, which would have dedicated a sustainable revenue stream for those programs, but fell just shy of the two thirds percentage needed to pass.

On a smaller level, she expanded the Gang Alternatives Program to all elementary schools in her district.

She was reelected to her third and final term in November 2009.

She has been called "one of the most pro-labor members" of the City Council, and a "consistent opponent of layoffs and furloughs for city workers."

Hahn ran for Lieutenant Governor of California in 2010 but was defeated in the Democratic primary by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, finishing second in a field of three candidates.

She received 33.3% of the vote against Newsom's 55.5%.

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.

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 2016.

In the general election, Hahn defeated Steve Napolitano to succeed Don Knabe to become the next Los Angeles County supervisor from the 4th district.

The 15th District encompasses the San Pedro Harbor and includes the ethnically diverse communities of Harbor City, Harbor Gateway, San Pedro, Watts and Wilmington.

She was sworn in on December 5, 2016.

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.