City Council President Nury Martinez is a glass-ceiling shattering leader who brings profound life experience as the proud daughter of working-class immigrants, as well as years of legislative and community advocacy expertise, to the forefront of her work fighting for the families of the City of Los Angeles and the Sixth Council District in the Northeast San Fernando Valley.
In January 2020, Nury Martinez became the first Latina City Council President in the City Council’s 170-year history.
When elected to the City Council in 2013, Martinez was the only female elected official in the City of Los Angeles. Today, as one of just two women on the City Council, Councilwoman Martinez is a groundbreaking leader who champions families first and women’s rights issues.
She helped lead the effort to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour in the City of Los Angeles so that low-income and working-class families can make a living wage and take care of their children.
Council President Martinez created a task force and increased efforts to help women who are caught in the nightmare of human trafficking to escape and get the assistance they need.
She has her own “Green New Deal” agenda that is focused on Environmental Justice first and foremost for low-income, people-of-color communities that historically suffer from polluted air, water and land more than other affluent communities..
A dedicated families-first advocate, Martinez is relentless in seeking public safety, transportation, and clean street resources for the families of the Northeast San Fernando Valley. Where City services cannot keep up with demand, Martinez has created in-house programs, like her unprecedented CD6 Clean Sweep Team and CD6 Sidewalk Improvement Program to supplement City-led illegal dumping cleanups and sidewalk repair.
As the Chair of the City’s Environmental, Climate Change & Environmental Justice Committee, Martinez has led the committee and City Council in implementing progressive, sustainable environmental standards that make Los Angeles a national standard-bearer. Martinez also utilizes her skills as the former Executive Director of the non-profit Pacoima Beautiful, to push for environmental justice policies that focus on low-income, communities of color.
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