Los Angeles City Attorney

The Los Angeles City Attorney is an elected official whose job is to prosecute all of the misdemeanor criminal offenses within the city of Los Angeles, California, United States. The General Counsel Division of the office provides legal counsel for the city by either defending the city or acting as the plaintiff for the city in all civil lawsuits. Term is four years and limited to two terms.

Name	Term
Benjamin Hays	1850–1851
William G. Dryden	1851–1852
Joseph Lancaster Brent	1852–1853
Charles E. Carr	1853
Joseph Lancaster Brent	1853
Isaac Hartman	1854–1855
Lewis Granger	1855–1856
Cameron E. Thom	1856–1858
James H. Lader	1858–1859
Samuel F. Reynolds	1859–1861
James H. Lader	1861–1862
Meyer Joseph Newmark	1862
Alfred Chapman	1862–1865
James H. Lader	1865
Andrew J. King	1866–1868
Charles H. Larrabee	1868–1869
William McPherson	1869–1870
Frank H. Howard	1870–1872
Aurelius W. Hutton	1872–1876
John Franklin Godfrey	1876–1880
Henry T. Hazard	1880–1882
Walter D. Stephenson	1882–1884
James Wilfred McKinley	1884–1886
J. C. Daly	1886–1888
Charles H. McFarland	1888–1894
William Ellsworth Dunn	1894–1898
Walter F. Haas	1898–1900
W. B. Matthews	1900–1906
Leslie R. Hewitt	1906–1910
John W. Shenk	1910–1913
Alfred Lee Stephens	1919
Charles S. Burnell	1919–1921
Jess E. Stephens	1921–1929
Erwin P. Warner	1929–1933
Ray L. Chesebro	1933–1953
Roger Arnebergh	1953–1973
Burt Pines	1973–1981
Ira Reiner	1981–1985
James Hahn	1985–2001
Rocky Delgadillo	2001–2009
Carmen Trutanich	2009–2013
Mike Feuer	2013-Present

External links

• Official website of the City Attorney