14 Facts About Gil Garcetti

Gilbert Salvador Iberri Garcetti was born on August 5,1941 and is an American politician and lawyer.

Gil Garcetti served as Los Angeles County's 40th district attorney for two terms, from 1992 until November 7,2000.

Gil Garcetti's father was born in Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico, and brought to the United States as a child after his own father, Massimo Garcetti, a judge and immigrant to Mexico from Italy, was hanged during the Mexican Revolution.

Gil Garcetti's mother was born in Arizona, one of nineteen children born to a father whose parents were from Sonora, Mexico, and a mother born in Arizona, to Mexican parents.

In 1959 Gil Garcetti graduated from George Washington High School in South Los Angeles.

Gil Garcetti received a bachelor's degree in management from the University of Southern California and a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Gil Garcetti won the general election with more than 81 percent of the vote.

Gil Garcetti focused both his terms working to solve a number of issues including domestic violence, hate crimes, welfare fraud and combating LA's street gangs.

Gil Garcetti came in second in a competitive three-person primary, taking 37 percent of the vote to Cooley's 39.

Gil Garcetti has been developing a foundation to help Latino and African-American students complete their high school education.

Gil Garcetti is currently a strong proponent of Proposition 34, an initiative that will replace the death penalty with life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Gil Garcetti was a consulting producer on the TNT series The Closer from its debut in 2005 and Major Crimes from its debut in 2012.

Gil Garcetti was married to Sukey Roth, who is of Russian Jewish descent.

Gil Garcetti later returned to the law and is serving as a Los Angeles County Deputy Public Defender.