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style="font-size: 100%;"><div class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">Ashleigh Aitken</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Mayor_Ashleigh_Aitken.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Mayor_Ashleigh_Aitken.jpg/220px-Mayor_Ashleigh_Aitken.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="283" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Mayor_Ashleigh_Aitken.jpg/330px-Mayor_Ashleigh_Aitken.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Mayor_Ashleigh_Aitken.jpg/440px-Mayor_Ashleigh_Aitken.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2022" data-file-height="2600" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">47th <a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_Anaheim" class="mw-redirect" title="Mayor of Anaheim">Mayor of Anaheim</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><div class="skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="width:100%; margin:0; color: black; background-color: lavender"><b><a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">Incumbent</a></b></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>Assumed office</b></span> <br />December 6, 2022</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Harry_Sidhu" title="Harry Sidhu">Harry Sidhu</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Fullerton,_California" title="Fullerton, California">Fullerton, California</a>, United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Michael Penn</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">3</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Boston_College" title="Boston College">Boston College</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">BA</a>)</li><li><a href="/wiki/USC_Gould_School_of_Law" title="USC Gould School of Law">USC Gould School of Law</a> (<a href="/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor">JD</a>)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Ashleigh Aitken</b> is an American politician from the <a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">state</a> of <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>. A member of the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic Party</a>, she is the 47th <a href="/wiki/Mayor" title="Mayor">mayor</a> of <a href="/wiki/Anaheim,_California" title="Anaheim, California">Anaheim, California</a>, serving since December 2022. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_career">Early life and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ashleigh_Aitken&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Aitken was born at <a href="/wiki/St._Jude_Medical_Center" title="St. Jude Medical Center">St. Jude Medical Center</a> in <a href="/wiki/Fullerton,_California" title="Fullerton, California">Fullerton, California</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-kudos_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kudos-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She graduated from <a href="/wiki/Rosary_Academy_(Fullerton,_California)" title="Rosary Academy (Fullerton, California)">Rosary High School</a> in Fullerton.<sup id="cite_ref-laist_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-laist-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Aitken earned a <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">Bachelor of Arts</a> in secondary education and history from <a href="/wiki/Boston_College" title="Boston College">Boston College</a>. She was a history teacher at <a href="/wiki/North_Quincy_High_School" title="North Quincy High School">North Quincy High School</a> and then worked in the Washington, D.C. office of <a href="/wiki/Dick_Gephardt" title="Dick Gephardt">Dick Gephardt</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> leader of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">United States House of Representatives</a>. She then attended the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Southern_California" title="University of Southern California">University of Southern California</a>'s <a href="/wiki/USC_Gould_School_of_Law" title="USC Gould School of Law">Gould School of Law</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-kudos_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kudos-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Aitken practices law for the law firm Aitken Aitken Cohn with her husband, father, and two brothers.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2012 <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_California" title="Governor of California">California Governor</a> <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Brown" title="Jerry Brown">Jerry Brown</a> appointed Aitken to the nine-member <a href="/wiki/Board_of_directors" title="Board of directors">board of directors</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Orange_County_Fair_(California)" title="Orange County Fair (California)">Orange County Fair</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Electoral_career">Electoral career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ashleigh_Aitken&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Electoral career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Aitken ran for <a href="/wiki/Mayor" title="Mayor">mayor</a> of Anaheim in the <a href="/wiki/2018_Anaheim_mayoral_election" title="2018 Anaheim mayoral election">2018 election</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and lost to <a href="/wiki/Harry_Sidhu" title="Harry Sidhu">Harry Sidhu</a>, 32.5% to 31.9%.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She ran for the third district seat on the <a href="/wiki/Orange_County_Board_of_Supervisors" title="Orange County Board of Supervisors">Orange County Board of Supervisors</a> in 2020, challenging <a href="/wiki/Donald_P._Wagner" title="Donald P. Wagner">Donald P. Wagner</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and lost. She ran for mayor in the <a href="/wiki/2022_Anaheim_mayoral_election" title="2022 Anaheim mayoral election">2022 election</a><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and won. She was sworn into office on December 6.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Aitken is the first female mayor of Anaheim.<sup id="cite_ref-laist_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-laist-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ashleigh_Aitken&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Aitken met her husband, Michael Penn, on a blind date. They married in 2002<sup id="cite_ref-kudos_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kudos-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and have three daughters.<sup id="cite_ref-laist_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-laist-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Electoral_history">Electoral history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ashleigh_Aitken&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Electoral history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable" style="; margin-right:1em;"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2018_Anaheim_mayoral_election" title="2018 Anaheim mayoral election">2018 Anaheim mayoral election</a><sup id="cite_ref-results_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-results-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col">Votes </th> <th scope="col">% </th></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="font-weight:bold;"><a href="/wiki/Harry_Sidhu" title="Harry Sidhu">Harry Sidhu</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right;font-weight:bold;">26,422 </td> <td style="text-align: right;font-weight:bold;">32.5% </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">Ashleigh Aitken </td> <td style="text-align:right;">25,944 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">31.9% </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">Lorri Galloway </td> <td style="text-align:right;">12,367 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">15.2% </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">Cynthia Ward </td> <td style="text-align:right;">7,121 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">8.7% </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">H. Fuji Shioura </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3,024 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3.7% </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">Robert Williams </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,824 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3.5% </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">Rudy Gaona </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,506 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">Tony D. Martin </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,199 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1.5% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>81,407 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100% </b> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="; margin-right:1em; font-size:95%"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2020_Orange_County_Board_of_Supervisors_election#District_3" title="2020 Orange County Board of Supervisors election">2020 Orange County Board of Supervisors election, 3rd district</a><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 15em">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:5px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Donald_P._Wagner" title="Donald P. Wagner">Donald P. Wagner</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>80,544 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>52.3 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#3333FF;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn">Ashleigh Aitken </td> <td style="text-align:right">73,334 </td> <td style="text-align:right">47.7 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>153,878 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.0 </b> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#F6F6F6"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color:#E81B23"> </td> <td colspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> <b>hold</b> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable" style="; margin-right:1em;"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2022_Anaheim_mayoral_election" title="2022 Anaheim mayoral election">2022 Anaheim mayoral election</a><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col">Votes </th> <th scope="col">% </th></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="font-weight:bold;">Ashleigh Aitken </td> <td style="text-align: right;font-weight:bold;">28,493 </td> <td style="text-align: right;font-weight:bold;">42.85% </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">Trevor O'Neil </td> <td style="text-align:right;">22,948 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">34.51% </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">Lorri Galloway </td> <td style="text-align:right;">11,282 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">16.97% </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">Dick Lopez </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3,770 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">5.67% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>66,493 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ashleigh_Aitken&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output 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scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #FCC200;;width:1%">History</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_Anaheim,_California" title="Timeline of Anaheim, California">Timeline</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2012_Anaheim,_California_police_shooting_and_protests" title="2012 Anaheim, California police shooting and protests">2012 police shooting and protests</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Anaheim_protests" title="2017 Anaheim protests">2017 Anaheim protests</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Library_(Anaheim,_California)" title="Carnegie Library (Anaheim, California)">Carnegie Library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Woelke_House" title="John Woelke House">John Woelke House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phillip_Ackley_Stanton_House" title="Phillip Ackley Stanton House">Phillip Ackley Stanton House</a></li> <li><a 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<li><a href="/wiki/Placentia-Yorba_Linda_Unified_School_District" title="Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District">Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fullerton_Joint_Union_High_School_District" title="Fullerton Joint Union High School District">Fullerton Joint Union High School District</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #FCC200;;width:1%">Private</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fairmont_Preparatory_Academy" title="Fairmont Preparatory Academy">Fairmont Preparatory Academy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Servite_High_School" title="Servite High School">Servite High School</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #FCC200;;width:1%">Closed</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cornelia_Connelly_High_School" title="Cornelia Connelly High School">Cornelia Connelly High School</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #FCC200;;width:1%">Colleges and universities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/North_Orange_County_Community_College_District" title="North Orange County Community College District">North Orange County Community College District</a> (Anaheim campus)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anaheim_University" title="Anaheim University">Anaheim University</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Closed6" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #FCC200;;width:1%">Closed</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" 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