Eric Garcetti

ABOUT ERIC GARCETTI

Politician and Democrat who became the Mayor of Los Angeles in 2013. He was the city's first elected Jewish mayor and its youngest in more than a century.

In 1993, he received a Master's degree from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He went on to study as a Rhodes Scholar at The Queen's College, Oxford.

Crime fell forty percent in his district after he chose to expand the Los Angeles Police Department and re-implement the Senior Lead Officer Program.

He married Amy Elaine Wakeland in 2009. They adopted a daughter named Maya Juanita; they have also fostered several children.

He endorsed Barack Obama early on in Obama's campaign for the American presidency.