Jesse Creed
Jesse Max Creed (born 1985) is an attorney, military veteran advocate, school board member and a candidate for Los Angeles City Council in Council District 5. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Early Life
Creed was born in Toronto, Canada and grew up in Los Angeles. Creed holds dual citizenship for both the US and Canada. In 1991, Creed’s father’s business went bankrupt and a bank forced his family to sell their home in Toronto. Creed moved to Columbus, Ohio in 1994, going on to live in eight different houses and six public schools until his family finally settled in the Westside of Los Angeles in 1997, where he came to appreciate the unique quality of life LA had to offer.
Education
He attended public school at Palisades Charter High School and graduated second in his class in 2003. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University in 2007, before attending Columbia Law School in 2010.[1] At Princeton,[2] he majored in Comparative Literature, where he studied the literature of five languages (French, Old French, English, Latin, and Spanish) and won several awards for writing the best senior thesis in the subjects of comparative literature, French, and Medieval Studies. At Princeton, he served as the Vice President of the University Student Government and served on the Priorities Committee where he advised the President of Princeton on the school’s $1 billion operating budget. At Columbia Law School, he served as an editor of the Columbia Law Review, taught first-year students constitutional law, and graduated at the top of his class as a James Kent scholar (top 1-3%).[1]
Professional Career
After graduating from Columbia Law School in 2010, Creed clerked for Judge Diana Motz on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 2010-2011.[1] He clerked for Judge William Fletcher in San Francisco on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 2011-2012.[1] Creed is a member of the school board for Equitas Academy in the Pico-Union area and serves on the advisory board of Karma Rescue, a nonprofit dog rescue in Los Angeles. He continues to serves on the advisory board of the medieval studies program of Princeton University.[1]
Attorney and Advocate
After clerking, Creed went to work at the Los Angeles-based law firm, Munger, Tolles & Olson.[1] At Munger, Tolles & Olson, Creed had a unique public interest practice where he specialized in nonprofit law and is an attorney representing veterans in Los Angeles to restore the West Los Angeles VA campus to its historic purpose as a home for veterans.[1]
Creed is a key member of the team of attorneys and advocates (including Bobby Shriver, Gary Blasi, and Admiral Mullen) working in partnership with Secretary Robert McDonald to implement a historic agreement that dedicates the West Los Angeles VA campus to serving veterans in need. Creed was integral to the development of the new master plan for the West Los Angeles VA campus. This historic project has earned broad community support through countless town halls and community meetings and has been endorsed by Westside community groups. For his work, Creed was awarded the California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year Award.[1]
In 2016, Creed was elected to the Los Angeles Regional Community Veterans Engagement Board, the official body of the VA for community-veteran relations in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles City Council District 5 Candidate
In May 2016, Creed officially declared his candidacy in LA City Council District 5.[3] The district includes Westwood, Bel-Air, Pico Robertson, Beverly Fairfax, Encino, Palms, and Tarzana. The L.A. Times cited Creed as concerned about the lack of vision on homelessness in the City Council. Creed was quoted as saying, “Rent is really high. Housing prices are really high. So there's a real housing affordability issue...we just need to have a conversation as a city about how we're going to grow and what we're going to be. And I just don't see the leadership for that conversation."[3]
Personal Life
Creed is married to Mia Munro,[2] a civil rights attorney who represents employees in the workplace against discrimination and wage theft. Munro is an expert on the gender pay gap and pregnancy discrimination. Creed and Munro live in the Beverly Grove district of Los Angeles with their rescue dog Wayan.
Creed is Jewish, and had his bar-mitzvah at a local temple in Venice, California. He is a member of the IKAR, a post-denominational Jewish congregation founded by Rabbi Sharon Brous, a charismatic figure in L.A.’s Jewish community. He is a student of the transcendental meditation technique.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 "Jesse Max Creed".
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Former City Controller Laura Chick endorses Jesse Creed in Council District 5 race". 6 September 2016.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Times, Los Angeles. "Lawyer looks to unseat L.A. Councilman Paul Koretz on the Westside".
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