Steve Cooley

Steve Cooley
Cooley in 2010
41st District Attorney of Los Angeles County
In office
December 4, 2000[1] – December 3, 2012
Preceded byGil Garcetti
Succeeded byJackie Lacey
Personal details
Born
Stephen Lawrence Cooley

(1947-05-01) May 1, 1947 (age 77)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
Spouse
Jana Cooley
(m. 1975)
Children2
Alma materCalifornia State University, Los Angeles
USC Gould School of Law
OccupationCriminal prosecutor
Websitewww.stevecooley.com Edit this at Wikidata

Stephen Lawrence Cooley (born May 1, 1947) is an American politician and prosecutor. He was the Los Angeles County District Attorney from 2000 to 2012. Cooley was re-elected in 2004 and again in 2008.

In 2010, Cooley won the Republican nomination for California Attorney General against John C. Eastman and Tom Harman in the June 8 primary election. During the general election campaign, Cooley said he would defend Proposition 8, a 2008 ballot measure that banned same-sex marriages in California but was then being appealed in the federal courts. Cooley lost to the Democratic nominee, then-San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris (future Vice President), in the November 2 general election, a close race, the results of which were not finalized until November 24, 2010.[2]

  1. ^ Mitchell Landsberg (December 4, 2000). "For New District Attorney, Reality Check Begins Today". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 1, 2018.
  2. ^ "Statement of Vote from the California Secretary of State" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-06-11.