Pulitzer Prize Winner Chosen as Head of Ethics Commission
A former journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1950 was elected president of the city’s Ethics Commission on Friday under a new system allowing commissioners to pick their own leader rather than leaving that power to the mayor.
Edwin Guthman, who has served on the panel six years, has written or edited three books, two of them about Robert F. Kennedy. He is currently a professor of journalism at USC and lives in Pacific Palisades.
The five commissioners voted unanimously to hand the gavel to Guthman, 77, while electing Richard Walch as vice president. Walch, a new commissioner, also serves as executive director of the Los Angeles County Bar Assn. Stepping down as president is attorney Racquel de la Rocha.
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