The new rules would punish parking of a food truck for more than one hour with a $1,000 fine and/or six months in jail.Ģ010: Molina supports a move to boycott Arizona because of SB 1070, then the nation’s strictest anti-illegal immigration law.Ģ014: Molina retires from her supervisor position in 2014 because of term limits.Ģ014: Molina receives honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Whittier College.Ģ014: Molina challenges 14th district incumbent José Huizar for his seat on the City Council, but loses her bid.Ģ014: Molina founds the “East L.A. It became known as the Gloria Molina Foster Youth Education Program.Ģ008: Molina champions efforts to increase penalties on food vendors in unincorporated areas the county. Torres’ fundraising dwarfed Molina’s.Įarly 2000s: Molina buoys Mothers of East Los Angeles, a group opposing a plan to build a prison in East L.A.Ģ006: Molina chosen “Hispanic Business Woman of the Year” by Hispanic Business magazineĢ008: Molina created an effort to improve the high school graduation rates of students in the foster care system. Martínez and longtime state lawmaker Art Torres, facing Torres again in a runoff. The result left the 1st District a majority-Latino zone.

Schabarum decided not to run for re-election, but served an extra three months while the board redistricted under court orders. In a lopsided victory, Molina defeats Larry Gonzalez, a member of the Los Angeles Board of Education, and two other candidates.ġ987: Molina is succeeded in the State Assembly by Lucille Roybal-Allard.ġ990: Molina becomes the first Latina woman to be elected to the L.A. The council subsequently moved the district from the San Fernando Valley to Eastside Los Angeles, making it majority Latino. The council’s 1st District opens after the death of incumbent Howard Finn. She serves as vice chair of the Committee on Public Employment and Retirement.ġ986: Molina becomes the first Latina woman to be elected to the Los Angeles City Council. She chairs the Subcommittee on Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities. Molina ran – and won – defeating former state Senate Majority leader Richard Polanco.ġ982-86: During her Assembly term, Molina serves on the committees of Revenue and Taxation, Labor and Employment, Utilities and Commerce. Art Torres had vacated his seat in the 56th state Assembly district due to redistricting.

1977: Molina serves in President Jimmy Carter’s administration as a deputy for presidential personnel.ġ979: Molina moves up to director of Intergovernmental and Congressional Affairs in the Department of Health and Human Services, Region IX office, in San Francisco.Įarly 1980s: Molina named to El Rancho High Hall of Fame.ġ981: Molina becomes the Southern California chief deputy to Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, Jr.ġ982: Molina becomes the first Latina woman to be elected to the California state Legislature.

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