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Lisa Middleton (born 1952) is an American politician, who served as the Mayor of Palm Springs from 2021 to 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, Middleton has served on the
Middleton has a
Palm Springs
Palm Springs (Cahuilla language, Cahuilla: ''Séc-he'') is a desert resort city in Riverside County, California, United States, within the Colorado Desert's Coachella Valley. The city covers approximately , making it the largest city in Rivers ...
City Council since 2017, and is the first openly transgender person elected in California
California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...
for a non-judicial position.
After serving as Mayor Pro Tempore of Palm Springs from 2020 to 2021, Middleton succeeded Christy Holstege as the city's mayor on December 9, 2021 and became the first openly transgender mayor in California.
Education
Middleton has a Master of Public Administration
A Master of Public Administration (MPA) is a specialized professional graduate degree in public administration that prepares students for leadership roles, similar or equivalent to a Master of Business Administration but with an emphasis on the ...
from University of Southern California
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. She has also completed the UCLA
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school then known as the southern branch of the C ...
LGBT Leadership Institute.
Career
Middleton worked for 36 years with theState Compensation Insurance Fund
The State Compensation Insurance Fund (State Fund) is a workers' compensation insurer that was created as a " public enterprise fund" by the U.S. state of California, and today has partial autonomy from the rest of the state government. It is req ...
of the State of California. When she retired she was the senior vice president of internal affairs with executive responsibility for internal audit, fraud investigation, public records and governance. She was also a member of California's Fraud Assessment Commission, which she chaired in 2010.
Middleton also served on the Riverside County Transportation Commission
The Riverside County Transportation Commission (RCTC) is the County Transportation Commission for Riverside County, California, United States. It is an association of local governments in the county, with policy makers consisting of mayors, coun ...
, the Sunline Board of Directors as Chair, and as an alternate to the Metrolink Board of Directors. She was appointed in April 2019 by Governor Gavin Newsom
Gavin Christopher Newsom ( ; born October 10, 1967) is an American politician and businessman serving since 2019 as the 40th governor of California. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he served from 2011 to 201 ...
to the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) Board of Administration. She is a member of the League of California Cities (Cal Cities) Board of Directors and the President (September 2021 – 2022) of the Cal Cities Riverside County Division.
Personal life
After 13 years together, Lisa and her wife Cheryl, a retired nurse, were married in July 2013. They have two children, a son and a daughter. Middleton istransgender
A transgender (often shortened to trans) person has a gender identity different from that typically associated with the sex they were sex assignment, assigned at birth.
The opposite of ''transgender'' is ''cisgender'', which describes perso ...
and transitioned in the mid-1990s.
See also
*List of transgender public officeholders in the United States
This is a list of openly transgender, intersex, and nonbinary officeholders by office in the United States. The first transgender public officeholder in the United States was Joanne Marie Conte, elected to Arvada, Colorado's City Council in 19 ...
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