Candidates for the April 20 Election

The Los Angeles city clerk’s office has announced that the following candidates will be on the April 20 election ballot. Of the original 119 who filed to run for 17 offices, 95 qualified. Candidates’ descriptions are their own.

MAYOR Michael A. Leptuch; none stated Nick Patsaouras; businessman, transportation commissioner Philip R. Ashamallah; engineer, composer-songwriter Adam Bregman; writer, musician Nate Holden; councilman Thomas Kingsley Houston; environmental attorney Kim DeLynn Allen; railroad worker Julian Nava; educator, diplomat, businessman Ernani Bernardi; councilman J. Stanley Sanders; businessman Laurence Greenblatt; tax preparer, actor Oscar C. Valdes; medical doctor Eileen Anderson; singer, dancer John Z. Borunda; businessman, retired policeman Joel Wachs; councilman Michael K. Woo; urban planner, councilman Richard D. Katz; member of the state Assembly Douglas Carlton; none stated Richard Joseph Riordan; businessman, civic leader Linda Griego; deputy mayor, businesswoman Randolph M. Pavelko; taxi driver Frank Teran; property investor, retired Leonard Shapiro; publisher Ted Hayes Jr.; homeless activist, advocate

CITY ATTORNEY Michael Joseph Guarino; prosecutor James Kenneth Hahn; city attorney

CITY CONTROLLER Rick Tuttle; controller Kevin Jones; fabricator, assembly Khalil Khalil; engineer, financial management

CITY COUNCIL, DISTRICT 1 Esther M. Long; community representative Jean Marie Durand; writer Michael P. Hernandez; councilman

DISTRICT 3 Robert J. Gross; community leader Laura Newman Chick; businesswoman Morton S. Diamond; small business advocate Joy Picus; councilwoman Dennis P. Zine; police sergeant, teacher Charles Dana Nixon III; businessman

DISTRICT 5 Laura Lake; community leader Zev Yaroslavsky; councilman

Michael Loren Rosenberg; city building inspector

DISTRICT 7 Albert Dib; businessman Lyle Everrett Hall; fire captain Anne V. Finn; community advocate, businesswoman Raymond Joseph Magana; attorney Henry Reyes Villafana; teacher, accountant Richard Anthony Alarcon; valley services coordinator LeRoy Chase Jr.; executive director, manager Rose Castaneda, congressional chief deputy

DISTRICT 9 Rita D. Walters; councilwoman Donald Alvin Lumpkin; businessman Bob Gay; council deputy

DISTRICT 11 Marvin Braude; councilman Daniel W. Pritikin; attorney John B. Handal II; restaurateur

DISTRICT 13 Thomas Joseph LaBonge; council deputy Jacqueline B. Goldberg; children’s advocate, teacher Virginia Stock Johannessen; community advocate Gilbert Carrasco; executive marketing consultant Michael Weinstein; president, health care foundation Conrado Terrazas; independent producer Sal Genovese; health care consultant Tom Riley; none stated

DISTRICT 15 Louis Leopold Dominquez; director computer operations James Paul Thompson; civil attorney Rudolph Svorinich Jr.; small business owner Janice K. Hahn; businesswoman, educator Diane Middleton; none stated Joan Milke Flores; councilwoman

BOARD OF EDUCATION, DISTRICT 2 Victoria M. Castro; educator Zada Willene Cooper; education commissioner Larry Gonzalez; television executive, businessman

DISTRICT 4 Mark David Slavkin; member of the Board of Education Judith R. Solkovits; business agent Douglas Michael Lasken; teacher

DISTRICT 6 Lynne Kuznetsky; educator, counselor Julianna Korenstein; member of the Board of Education Richard David (Ricc) Bieber; electrical contractor, activist Eli Brent; school principal

BOARD OF TRUSTEES, COMMUNITY COLLEGES OFFICE NO. 2 Patrick Owens; member of the Board of Trustees Ronald R. Williams; student, business major Gabriel A. Orosco; none stated Josh Addison Arce; student Elizabeth Jo Garfield; lawyer, college lecturer Eric C. Jacobson; none stated Maria Escalante; educator Joseph Ortiz; educator, communications specialist

OFFICE NO. 4 Lindsay Conner; member of the Board of Trustees Xavier Hermosillo; none stated Casey Peters; university library worker

OFFICE NO. 6 Althea Baker; member of the Board of Trustees Alice Hilda Lane; community political consultant Stanley Camilla Benson Viltz; community college administrator Peter C. Halt; certified public accountant Fernando Del Rio; communications manager

Compiled by Times researcher Cecilia Rasmussen