Eric Garcetti Children: Meet Maya Juanita Garcetti

Eric Garcetti Children: Meet Maya Juanita Garcetti – Eric Garcetti is the 42nd and current mayor of Los Angeles, having taken office in 2013. He was elected as a member of the Democratic Party in 2013 and was re-elected in 2017.

Garcetti, a former member of the Los Angeles City Council, was City Council President from 2006 to 2012. He is the city’s first elected Jewish mayor and its second Mexican American mayor in a row.

President Joe Biden nominated Garcetti as the United States Ambassador to India in July 2021, but by May 2022, it was clear that Garcetti would not receive the necessary Senate votes for confirmation.

Garcetti was born in Los Angeles and raised in the San Fernando Valley town of Encino. He is the son of Sukey and former Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti.

Salvador Garcetti, Garcetti’s paternal grandfather, was born in Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico. Salvador was brought to the United States as a child by his family after his father, Massimo “Max” Garcetti, was executed by hanging during the Mexican Revolution.

Max had emigrated from Italy to Mexico. He married a Mexican woman and went on to become a judge.

Juanita Iberri, his paternal grandmother, was born in Arizona, the 19th child of an immigrant father from Sonora, Mexico, and an Arizona-born mother whose father and mother were both Mexican.

Garcetti’s maternal grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants. His maternal grandfather, Harry Roth, founded and ran the clothing company Louis Roth Clothes. Garcetti’s family observed Passover and Chanukah, and he attended a Jewish camp.

Garcetti went to UCLA Lab School, formerly University Elementary School, for elementary school and Harvard-Westlake School for middle and high school.

He was a Junior State of America member in high school, which is a national civic engagement and political debate organization for students.

Senator Chuck Grassley put a hold on Garcetti’s nomination on March 10, 2022, citing allegations that Garcetti was aware of sexual misconduct committed by his top advisor, Rick Jacobs, but did not take appropriate action.

Senator Joni Ernst announced on March 23, 2022, that she would also put Garcetti’s nomination on hold while investigations were conducted, as some depositions suggest Garcetti was aware of Jacobs’ egregious behavior.

Garcetti studied political science and urban planning at Columbia University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts as a John Jay Scholar in 1992. He served on the student council, was president of the St. Anthony Hall fraternity and literary society, and founded the Columbia Urban Experience during that time. He graduated in 1993 with a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

He met his future wife while both were Rhodes Scholars at The Queen’s College, Oxford.

He later began studying for a PhD in ethnicity and nationalism at the London School of Economics, but it does not appear that he ever finished the degree as of 2022.