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| Name | Martin Ludlow |
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| Info | Martin Ludlow was elected to the Los Angeles City Council, 10th District, on May 20th 2003. He serves as Chair of the Conventions, Tourism, Entertainment Industry and Business Enterprise Committee, Vice Chair of the Housing Community and Economic Development Committee, and is a member of the Arts, Parks, Health and Aging Committee. Martin has been appointed by Mayor James Hahn to serve as a Director on the MTA board and has also been appointed by Governor Gray Davis to the California Council on Criminal Justice.
Those who know Martin Ludlow describe him as a man who is passionate about working with at-risk youth. He developed the first inner city Little League in South Los Angeles, he spent time in Mississippi working to call attention to the Ku Klux Klan murders of three young civil rights workers, and he has spent sixteen years working to protect affirmative action and to improve police/community relations. He has performed leadership roles with Vice President Al Gore, Governor Gray Davis, California Assembly Speakers Herb Wesson and Antonio Villaraigosa, former Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley and the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor (AFL-CIO).
Martin was adopted by a multi-racial family when he was nine months old. His father, Willis, was an activist Methodist minister, and his mother, Anne, a union president. Both parents supported civil rights workers in the �60s, United Farm Workers in the �70s, became leaders in the Free South Africa Movement in the �80s, and successfully pushed the state of Wyoming to recognize Martin Luther King Jr.�s birthday in the �90s. Together, they fought to end the war in Central America.
Martin�s first job in politics was a Washington D.C. internship with Congressman Julian Dixon. Representative Dixon praised Martin�s work and urged Senator Alan Cranston to hire him for the 1988 presidential campaign of Michael Dukakis. In the fall of 1998, Martin directed the South LA campaign offices of Governor Gray Davis.
Martin served as the Western Region Political Director for the SEIU, Deputy Director of the LA Conservation Corps, and Field Director for the Christopher Commission Police Reform � Charter Amendment of Campaign.
Martin organized an unprecedented �Crime Summit� which brought together the leadership of California�s law enforcement to address the rash of murders in South LA during the summer of �99. Following a series of violent hate crimes, Martin convened a panel of human rights experts, leading to legislation creating the California Human Relations Commission.
Martin earned his BS degree in Criminal Justice from California State University, Los Angeles and has taught at UCLA. Martin is married to Kimberly Blake-Ludlow. He has three children; Michael, Maya, Desmond and three step-children; Gabriella, Joseph and Jared.
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