THE highest-ranking Filipino American and one of the highest-rated Asian Pacific Islander lawyers in the Los Angeles City Hall is Eduardo Angeles, the first Filipino American lawyer to serve as the Special Counsel to the LA City Council. Besides representing some of the most powerful people in Los Angeles, he is a significant voice for the FilAm community.
As the right hand man to the LA City Council, Angeles has his hands full everyday.
Formerly Chief Attorney of Public Protection of San Francisco, Angeles also served as the lead lawyer of the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Airport Division.
Born in Pasig City, Manila and raised in Angeles City in Central Luzon, Angeles grew up as the only son of his mother and father. He is the youngest of seven siblings from his mother’s side and the eldest from his father.
In September 1972, his parents separated. His father stayed in the Philippines and his mother chose to immigrate to the US.
Angeles completed his studies at Balboa High School and received a Bachelor’s of Arts degree at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB). He then attended UC Berkeley’s Hastings School of Law to further his education.
While attending Hastings, he quickly found out he was in a different and more competitive environment than the lax beach lifestyle he led in Santa Barbara. Hastings Law is a top ten law program in the US. The school prides itself in making life difficult for freshmen students.
Angeles credits his perseverance to his mother who has always been supportive of his dreams of becoming a lawyer.
After starting his career in the San Francisco City Attorney’s office, LA City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo named Angeles as chief counsel to the Los Angeles World Airports.
“Then he [Delgadillo] said ‘I got another job for you,” Angeles says. And he became LA City’s highest-ranking Fil-Am.
Overall, Angeles says his true motivation for all of his accomplishments is to make a difference
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