Candidates for the April 20 Election

The field of mayoral hopefuls for the April 20 ballot narrowed from 52 to 31 by Saturday’s qualifying deadline, but is still a record number of candidates.

A total of 119 candidates filed petitions to run for mayor, city attorney, controller, seven City Council seats, three Board of Education seats and three Community College Board seats.

To win a spot on the ballot, candidates had to collect 500 voter signatures and pay $300, or in lieu of the fee, gather 1,000 signatures.

Here are the candidates who turned in petitions. (Candidates’ occupational descriptions are their own).

MAYOR Michael A. Leptuch; none stated Suleiman C. Edmondson; entrepreneur Nick Patsaouras; businessman, transportation commissioner Frederick Douglas Buhl Jr.; banker Philip R. Ashamallah; engineer, composer-songwriter Michael A. Boateng; student, public administration Adam Bregman; writer, musician Nate Holden; councilman Thomas Kingsley Houston; environmental attorney Kim DeLynn Allen; railroad worker Pyung Soon Im; minister Julian Nava; educator, diplomat, businessman Ernani Bernardi; councilman J. Stanley Sanders; businessman Laurence Greenblatt (Larry Green); tax preparer, actor Oscar C. Valdes; medical doctor Eileen Anderson; singer, dancer John Z. Borunda; businessman, retired policeman Joel Wachs; councilman Stanley Franklin Allen; politician Michael K. Woo; urban planner, councilman Richard D. Katz; member of the state Assembly Joanne M. Ohanesian; entrepreneur, business coach Douglas Carlton; none stated Rudolph V. Thompson; designer, manufacturer Richard Joseph Riordan; businessman, civic leader Linda Griego; deputy mayor, businesswoman Randolph M. Pavelko; taxi driver Frank Teran; property investor, retired Leonard Shapiro; publisher Theodore (Ted) Hayes Jr.; homeless activist, advocate

CITY ATTORNEY Michael Joseph Guarino; prosecutor James Kenneth Hahn; city attorney

CITY CONTROLLER Rick Tuttle; controller Kevin Jones; fabricator/assembly Khalil Khalil; engineer, financial management

CITY COUNCIL, DISTRICT 1 Juventino M. Gomez; senior personnel technician Esther M. Long; community representative Jean Marie Durand; writer Michael P. Hernandez; councilman

DISTRICT 3 Robert J. Gross; community leader Laura Newman Chick; businesswoman Morton S. Diamond; small-business advocate Joy Picus; councilwoman Dennis P. Zine; police sergeant, teacher Charles Dana Nixon III; businessman

DISTRICT 5 Laura Lake; community leader Zev Yaroslavsky; councilman Michael Loren Rosenberg; city building inspector

DISTRICT 7 Albert Dib; businessman Lyle Everrett Hall; fire captain Anne V. Finn; community advocate, businesswoman Jose P. Galvan; young adult librarian Raymond Joseph Magana; attorney Irene Tovar; administrator, community consultant Henry Reyes Villafana; teacher, accountant Richard Anthony Alarcon; valley services coordinator Sandra Lynn Hubbard; publishing LeRoy Chase Jr.; executive director, manager Rose M. Casteneda; congressional chief deputy

DISTRICT 9 Rita D. Walters; councilwoman Donald Alvin Lumpkin; businessman Bob Gay; council deputy

DISTRICT 11 Marvin Braude; councilman Daniel W. Pritikin; attorney John B. Handal II; restaurateur Patrick Michael Blackburn; businessman Mary Lou Holte; crime control advocate

DISTRICT 13 Thomas Joseph LaBonge; council deputy Jacqueline B. Goldberg; children’s advocate, teacher Virginia Stock Johannessen; community advocate Gilbert Carrasco; executive marketing consultant Michael Weinstein; president, health care foundation Lily Yeelam Lee; public administrator, gerontologist Conrado Terrazas; independent producer Sal Genovese; health care consultant Tom Riley; none stated Adelina Ruth Sorkin; commissioner Efren Litimco Mamaril; mayor’s special assistant

DISTRICT 15 Louis Leopold Dominquez; director, computer operations James Paul Thompson; civil attorney Rudolph Svorinich Jr.; small business owner Janice K. Hahn; businesswoman, educator Warren T. Furutani; member of the Board of Education Diane Middleton; none stated Joan Milke Flores; councilwoman

BOARD OF EDUCATION, DISTRICT 2 Victoria M. Castro; educator Zada Willene Cooper; education commissioner Larry Gonzalez; television executive, businessman

DISTRICT 4 Mark David Slavkin; member of the Board of Education Elaine Lola Holzer; educator, business owner Judith R. Solkovits; business agent Douglas Michael Lasken; teacher

DISTRICT 6 Chris Laird; secondary math teacher Adolph (Ace) Guzman; educator Lynne Kuznetsky; educator, counselor Julie Korenstein; member of the Board of Education Richard David (Ricc) Bieber; electrical contractor, activist Terry Guy Stoller; youth sports official Eli Brent; school principal

BOARD OF TRUSTEES, COMMUNITY COLLEGES

OFFICE NO. 2 Patrick Owens; member of the Board of Trustees Ronald R. Williams; student, business major Gabriel A. Orosco; none stated Josh Addison Arce; student Elizabeth Jo Garfield; lawyer, college lecturer Eric C. Jacobson; none stated Maria Escalante; educator Joseph Ortiz; educator, communications specialist

OFFICE NO. 4 Lindsay Conner; member of the Board of Trustees Xavier Hermosillo; none stated Howard O. Watts; disabled veteran Richard E. Ferraro; educational administrator Casey Peters; university library worker

OFFICE NO. 6 Althea Baker; member of the Board of Trustees Alice Hilda Lane; community political consultant Stanley Camilla Benson Viltz; community college administrator Peter C. Halt; certified public accountant Fernando Del Rio; communications manager Thomas J. Morehouse; businessman, educator, realty agent

Compiled by Times researcher Cecilia Rasmussen