Candidate for
Mayor; City of Irvine

Irvine City Councilman Steven Choi was elected to the Irvine City Council for the first time in 2004 and was re-elected to a second term in 2008. Previously, he served 6 years as a Trustee of the Irvine Unified School District.

Steven is a passionate and experienced educator. After earning his bachelor's degree from Kyung Hee University in Seoul, South Korea, he immigrated to the United States as a Peace Corps language instructor for the State Department in August, 1968. He then continued his post-graduate studies, earning his master's degree in Library Science from Louisiana State University, and his Ph.D. in Library and Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Since then, he resumed his teaching career, primarily in higher education at several universities and colleges including USC, UCI, California State University, Los Angeles, Henderson State University in Arkansas, Saddleback College, and most recently, Coastline Community College.