CANDIDATES ON THE APRIL 9 BALLOT

The Los Angeles City Clerk’s office has announced that the following candidates will be on the April 9 election ballot. Of the original 132 who filed to run for 16 offices, 76 qualified. Descriptions are the candidates’ own. Members of the City Council

District 2 Peter A. Lynch, legislative advocate

Tom Paterson, homeowner association president

Joel Wachs, councilman

District 4 John Ferraro, councilman

District 6 J. Wilson Bowman, educational consultant

Mervin Evans, business development consultant

Ruth Basia Galanter, councilwoman

Salvatore Grammatico, realtor, community activist

Mary Lee Gray, supervisor’s senior deputy

Charles Albert Mattison, minister, dentist

Tavis Eugene Smiley, public service

Write-in candidate Goldie Glitters, performance artist

District 8 Maybelline Griffin, county children’s administrator

Johathan Leonard, retired firefighter, businessman

Kerman Maddox, community college instructor

Norma Celestine Mena, business consultant

Billy Mills, attorney

Carolyn Moore, social worker consultant

Cornelius A. Pettus, businessman

Mark Ridley-Thomas, civil rights leader

Roderick Devon Wright, government affairs officer

District 9* Theodore Bey, businessman, community activist

Woodrow Fleming, labor union executive

Bob Gay, city councilman’s deputy

Charles David Henry, community advocate

Joseph Abraham Hubbard Jr., communicator, activist

Brad Pye Jr., assistant chief deputy

Barbara Ratliff, teacher, attorney, businesswoman

Michael Schaefer, public interest attorney

Lang Stanley, college counselor, professor

Rita Dolores Walters, school board member

District 10 Nathan Nathaniel Holden, councilman

Esther M. Lofton, educator, administrator

District 12 Hal Bernson, councilman

Allen Robert Hecht, businessman, environmental advocate

Arthur “Larry” Kagele, police detective supervisor

Julianna Korenstein, member of the board of education

Walter N. Prince, businessman, environmentalist, activist

Leonard Shapiro, publisher, community activist

District 14 Richard Alatorre, councilman

David Ralph Diaz, environmental planner

Martin GutieRuiz, community organizer

John Lucero, corporate president

Members of the Board of Education

District 1 Barbara Marie Boudreaux, elementary school principal

Arnold Carl Butler, educator, businessman

Sterling Delone, teacher

Charles E. Dickerson, attorney

Donald Fay Jones, school district employee

Celestine W. Palmer, educator

Marion Estelle Sims, educator, clinical psychologist

Chetera Gayle Ingram Watson, educator, parent, activist

District 3 Stanley Bunyan, retired teacher, principal

Jeffrey P. Horton, teacher

Anthony “Tony” Trias, educator, businessman

District 5 Richard E. Ferraro, educator

Leticia Quezada, member of the Board of Education

District 7 Warren T. Furutani, member of the Board of Education

Timothy E. McKinney, carpenter

Members of the Board of Trustees, Community Colleges

Office No. 1 Wallace B. Knox, member of the Board of Trustees

Elizabeth K. Stone, airline worker

Office No. 3 John K. Evenhuis, community college student

Elizabeth Michael, county committeewoman, businesswoman

Julia Li Wu, community college trustee

Office No. 5 Brad Rayburn Hamill, aerospace engineer

Peter Ireland, environmental agency executive

John J. Jamgotchian, attorney

Paul Cohen Koretz, city councilman, educator

Patrick Dennis McGuire, educator, businessman

Gloria Elisabeth Rothenberg, community activist, businesswoman

Hal James Styles Jr., investment counselor, educator

Kenneth S. Washington, retired college administrator

Howard O. Watts, disabled veteran

William Douglas Zuke, disability advocate

Office No. 7 Gerald C. Broderson, community crime fighter

Mark Isler, teacher, business owner

David Lopez-Lee, member of the Board of Trustees

*Special election