Candidate for
Member, City Council; City of Los Angeles; District 15

Janice Hahn Biography

A former teacher and life-long advocate for working families, Janice Hahn was elected to the Los Angeles Charter Reform Commission in 1997 to represent the communities of the 15th council district. She has championed their causes in Neighborhood Councils, area-planning commissions, and is working to give our children the opportunities and tools they need to succeed.

Janice Hahn has a long history of civic activism in every community in the district. As president of the Gang Alternatives Program # Harbor Area (GAP), Janice helps our children stay in school and avoid the pressures to join gangs. Since GAP first started going into schools in 1986, gang-related crime in the Harbor Area has dropped drastically. As chair of the School to Career Alliance she works to bring business and schools together to train workers for good paying jobs in our communities. As a member of the Rotary Club she coordinated donations of free trigger locks to reduce kids' access to their parents' guns.

She serves on the Board of Habitat for Humanity, Rainbow Women's Shelter, Watts/Willowbrook Boys and Girls Club, South Bay Workforce Investment Board, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Hospital Community Advisory Board. She is the immediate past President of the Hawthorne Chamber of Commerce and a founding Board member of the South Bay Latino Chamber of Commerce.

Janice Hahn is the daughter of the late Los Angeles County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn. The Democratic Party's nominee for the 36th Congressional seat in 1998, she nearly upset Rep. Steve Kuykendall in a hard fought race. However, Hahn defeated him 2 to 1 in the overlapping portions of the city council district. As the elected representative for the 15th Council District on the Los Angeles Charter Reform Commission, she led the effort to include the Living Wage and create Neighborhood Councils.

On the City Council Janice will continue to work for broader gang diversion and after school programs to keep our kids off the streets and out of trouble, quickly cover the petroleum coke piles and work to clean up toxic sites and railroad rights of way. Her extensive experience makes her the only candidate that can bring together city government and community based groups to improve our neighborhoods, fix our streets and make our neighborhoods better, safer places to live.

Janice Hahn is a lifelong resident of Los Angeles and lives in San Pedro with her two sons Danny 19 and Mark 16. Her eldest daughter, Katy 22, was recently married.