23 Facts About Ruth Galanter

Ruth Galanter served on the Los Angeles City Council from 1987 to 2003.

Ruth Galanter is known for supporting "slow growth" policies on the city's Westside and elsewhere.

Ruth Galanter was the victim of a knife attack in an attempted home robbery that left her severely wounded.

Ruth Galanter received her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and her master's degree in planning from Yale.

On May 6,1987, Ruth Galanter was "brutally assaulted" in her Venice home in the 2200 block of Louella Avenue by an intruder who left her in critical condition with stab wounds in her neck.

Neighbors heard screaming and the sound of a burglar alarm that Ruth Galanter was able to trigger after the attack.

Ruth Galanter made a study-trip to Antarctica in January 1989 as an "exotic vacation" she had promised herself as she lay in bed bleeding from the knife attack.

Ruth Galanter was appointed to the South Coast Regional Coastal Commission by Governor Jerry Brown in January 1977.

Ruth Galanter knew radical and anti-war activist Tom Hayden in college and endorsed him when he ran for the California Assembly in 1982.

Ruth Galanter won the June 1987 final vote, 21,846 to 15,855 in what the Los Angeles Times called "a dramatic election that signals the rise of a new constituency in city politics and sends troubling signals to the mayor's office".

The election was widely regarded as a harbinger of a new brand of politics in the city, with Ruth Galanter leading a protest against the effect of development on traffic, air and water pollution and neighborhood tranquility.

Ruth Galanter "vehemently opposed" major development projects in her district, including the proposed Howard Hughes Center, a 3.1-million-square-foot project.

Ruth Galanter had a chance to step up to the plate and she sort of sagged up there instead.

Ruth Galanter called for tougher laws to ban overnight sleeping on the city's beaches.

Ruth Galanter asked that 200 acres be set aside near Los Angeles International Airport for a wildlife preserve because at least ten endangered species lived there.

Ruth Galanter opposed expansion plans at Los Angeles International Airport but favored them at Palmdale Airport.

Ruth Galanter inherited a neighborhood sponsored assessment for improving the Venice Canals, but the final design selection and ultimate canal improvements in 1991 can be credited to Galanter's leadership as a Los Angeles City Councilwoman.

Ruth Galanter asked the state agency California Coastal Conservancy to review the options for a canal improvement project.

Ruth Galanter had said she would be open to other plans, but for the time she would continue the Armorflex design.

Ruth Galanter stated she would be open to the Venice Canals Association design material.

Ruth Galanter agreed to have city engineers design an official city plan using the Loffel Block.

Ruth Galanter said the project represents the first time a Los Angeles community was able to select the kind of art it wanted under the city's program that funnels 1 percent of developers' fees to public art.

Ruth Galanter said when she left office she believed her "most lasting legacy" would be a law requiring low-flush toilets in homes.