Michael Francis Eng (;Mike Eng for State Senate, Biography /ref> born September 14, 1946) is an American politician serving as one of five members of the
California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board
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(CUIAB) since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he was appointed to the body, an administrative court system for workers and employers, ruling on work-related benefits, by State Assembly Speaker
Anthony Rendon
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.Michael Eng - Board Member - CUIAB /ref> Eng previously served in the Monterey Park
City Council
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(2003–2006) and
California State Assembly
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(2006–2012); he was Mayor of Monterey Park from 2004 to 2005. He was elected to the
Los Angeles Community College District
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Board of Trustees in 2013 and served until 2017.Mike Eng - Member of the Board LACCD /ref>
Biography
In 2004, Eng became Mayor of
Monterey Park, California
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, an office he held until 2005.
Eng has served as a City Councilman, State Assemblyman and Community College Board Vice President. He has also served as Vice Chair of the State Board of Acupuncture and President of the Monterey Park Library Board of Trustees. While in the Assembly, he chaired the Committee on Transportation, Committee on Business and Professions and Committee on Banking and Finance.
In 2018, he ran for the
California State Senate
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, but was defeated in November by Baldwin Park City Councilwoman Susan Rubio.
He founded a downtown immigration law firm and has also been on the teaching faculty at California State University, Los Angeles, UCLA, Los Angeles Trade Tech College and University of the West.
Personal life
In 2011, Mike Eng commented publicly on the name given to a food delivery service started by two UCLA students, "Ching-Chong-Ling-Long Gourmet Takeout". He stated, "Stereotypical phrases such as these perpetuate misunderstandings about Asian Americans and intensify hurtful sentiments toward this community". The delivery service in question was subsequently discontinued after pushback from Mike Eng and several UCLA student groups.
Eng is married to Congresswoman
Judy Chu
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