Pre Assembly Political Career
Prior to her service in the Assembly, Lowenthal was elected to represent the First Council District of the City of Long Beach, in 2001, and was selected to serve as Vice Mayor in 2006. Lowenthal also served on the Long Beach Unified School District Board of Education for seven years and was a member of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), as well as many community boards and committees.
As a Councilmember, Lowenthal was honored with:
- CentroCHA’s Education Award for her longstanding efforts on behalf of the Hispanic community;
- The Interfaith Community Organization’s Housing Hero Award in recognition of her advocacy on behalf of those in need of housing.
- The Environmental Hero Award by the Algalita Marine Research Foundation and Long Beach Organic;
- The Women of Distinction award from Soroptimist International; and
- The Excellence Through Leadership Award from ILWU Local 13, among others.
Read more about this topic: Bonnie Lowenthal
Famous quotes containing the words assembly, political and/or career:
“There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“Both the Moral Majority, who are recycling medieval language to explain AIDS, and those ultra-leftists who attribute AIDS to some sort of conspiracy, have a clearly political analysis of the epidemic. But even if one attributes its cause to a microorganism rather than the wrath of God, or the workings of the CIA, it is clear that the way in which AIDS has been perceived, conceptualized, imagined, researched and financed makes this the most political of diseases.”
—Dennis Altman (b. 1943)
“The 19-year-old Diana ... decided to make her career that of wife. Today that can be a very, very iffy line of work.... And what sometimes happens to the women who pursue it is the best argument imaginable for teaching girls that they should always be able to take care of themselves.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)