Los Angeles City Controller

The Los Angeles City Controller is an official in the government of the city of Los Angeles, California. The City Controller is the paymaster and chief accounting officer of the city. Along with the Mayor and the City Attorney, the City Controller is chosen by popular vote every four years.

The position began in 1878 as the Los Angeles City Auditor and in the early days included secretarial duties for the Los Angeles Common Council as part of the job. Upon the re-election of John S. Myers in 1925, when the city approved a new charter, the name of the position was changed to City Controller. In 2000, another update to the city charter added the power and responsibility of conducting "performance audits" of departmental effectiveness.[1]

List of City Controllers
NameTerm
William Whipple Robinson1878–1886
Freeman G. Teed1886–1888
M. F. Stiles1888–1889
Frank E. Lopez1889–1892
Fred H. Teale1892–1896
Thomas Edwin Nichols1896–1898
E. A. Carson1898–1900
Elijah E. Unger1900–1903
Lewis H. Schwaebe1903–1906
William C. Mushet1906–1909
John S. Myers1909–1937
Daniel O. Hoye1937–1961
Charles Navarro1961–1977
Ira Reiner1977–1981
James Hahn1981–1985
Rick Tuttle1985–2001
Laura N. Chick2001–April 26, 2009
Wendy Greuel2009–2013
Ron Galperin2013–Present

References
  1. Sonenshein, Raphael J. (2006). Los Angeles : structure of a city government (PDF). [Los Angeles]: League of Women Voters of Los Angeles. ISBN 0-9668991-1-3.
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