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data-file-width="262" data-file-height="349" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-top:0.2em;">Picus in 1989</div></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;">Member of the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_City_Council" title="Los Angeles City Council">Los Angeles City Council</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_City_Council_District_3" class="mw-redirect" title="Los Angeles City Council District 3">3rd district</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />June 1, 1977 – June 30, 1993</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/Donald_D._Lorenzen" title="Donald D. Lorenzen">Donald D. Lorenzen</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Laura_Chick" title="Laura Chick">Laura Chick</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">1930 (age 93–94)<br /><a href="/wiki/Chicago,_Illinois" class="mw-redirect" title="Chicago, Illinois">Chicago, Illinois</a></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">Residence(s)</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Woodland_Hills,_Los_Angeles" title="Woodland Hills, Los Angeles">Woodland Hills</a>, <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">U.S.</a></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"><a href="/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Wisconsin">University of Wisconsin</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Joy Picus</b> (born 1930)<sup id="cite_ref-OnlyPolitician_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OnlyPolitician-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-PicusGoes_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PicusGoes-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was an American politician who served as a <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_City_Council" title="Los Angeles City Council">Los Angeles City Council</a> member for 16 years, from 1977 to 1993, and was a <i>Ms.</i> magazine "Woman of the Year" in 1985. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joy_Picus&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Joy Picus is a native of <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago, Illinois</a>, where her father died shortly after she was born. As a child, she helped her mother manage an apartment building, and at age sixteen she began her <a href="/wiki/Political_science" title="Political science">political science</a> studies at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Wisconsin">University of Wisconsin</a>. She and Gerald Picus, a physicist, were married in Chicago. They lived in Washington, D.C., for a time, then moved to California when Gerald took a job at <a href="/wiki/Hughes_Aircraft" class="mw-redirect" title="Hughes Aircraft">Hughes Aircraft</a> in 1959. They have three children.<sup id="cite_ref-PicusGoes_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PicusGoes-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SpotlightOn_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SpotlightOn-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Joy and her husband lived in <a href="/wiki/Woodland_Hills,_Los_Angeles" title="Woodland Hills, Los Angeles">Woodland Hills</a> in the <a href="/wiki/San_Fernando_Valley" title="San Fernando Valley">San Fernando Valley</a>, where she became active in the <a href="/wiki/Parent-Teacher_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="Parent-Teacher Association">Parent-Teacher Association</a> and <a href="/wiki/League_of_Women_Voters" title="League of Women Voters">League of Women Voters</a>. She was also president of the Valley branch of the <a href="/wiki/American_Association_of_University_Women" title="American Association of University Women">American Association of University Women</a>. She was employed for three years as the Community Relations Director for the <a href="/wiki/Jewish_Federation" title="Jewish Federation">Jewish Federation</a> Council,<sup id="cite_ref-SpotlightOn_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SpotlightOn-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><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><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 was a founding member of Temple Aliyah.<sup id="cite_ref-TempleAliyeh_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TempleAliyeh-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>She became a <a href="/wiki/Feminist" class="mw-redirect" title="Feminist">feminist</a> after reading <a href="/wiki/Betty_Friedan" title="Betty Friedan">Betty Friedan</a>'s book <i><a href="/wiki/The_Feminine_Mystique" title="The Feminine Mystique">The Feminine Mystique</a></i> in 1964. She said of the book "That was my awakening. Before I didn't know who <a href="/wiki/Susan_B._Anthony" title="Susan B. Anthony">Susan B. Anthony</a> was." When she became a councilwoman, she sponsored a yearly Susan B. Anthony essay. She had previously sponsored a "Great Expectations" program for high school girls to help them expand their goals.<sup id="cite_ref-PicusGoes_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PicusGoes-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After her City Council defeat in 1993, she worked to promote "family-friendly" workplaces, women's rights, and recycling.<sup id="cite_ref-TempleAliyeh_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TempleAliyeh-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2006, she was chair of the Friends of the <a href="/wiki/Griffith_Observatory" title="Griffith Observatory">Griffith Observatory</a> (FOTO).<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> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="City_Council">City Council</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joy_Picus&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: City Council"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections">Elections</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joy_Picus&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Elections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Picus began her political career in 1973 by challenging the incumbent councilman, <a href="/wiki/Donald_D._Lorenzen" title="Donald D. Lorenzen">Donald D. Lorenzen</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_City_Council_District_3" class="mw-redirect" title="Los Angeles City Council District 3">Los Angeles City Council District 3</a>. Lorenzen won in a tight election that demanded a recount; the vote was 27,575 for Lorenzen and 27,027 for Picus. She took on Lorenzen again in 1977, and won by nearly 5,000 votes. Picus said that voters turned against Lorenzen because he forced streetlights upon certain residential districts which resulted in higher taxes.<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> Lorenzen had referred to her as a "wild-eyed environmentalist".<sup id="cite_ref-SpotlightOn_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SpotlightOn-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>She was first woman to represent the <a href="/wiki/San_Fernando_Valley" title="San Fernando Valley">San Fernando Valley</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_City_Council" title="Los Angeles City Council">Los Angeles City Council</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-SpotlightOn_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SpotlightOn-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At that time, the 3rd District covered the southwest corner of the Valley, including <a href="/wiki/Woodland_Hills,_Los_Angeles" title="Woodland Hills, Los Angeles">Woodland Hills</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tarzana,_Los_Angeles" title="Tarzana, Los Angeles">Tarzana</a> and parts of <a href="/wiki/Encino,_Los_Angeles" title="Encino, Los Angeles">Encino</a>, <a href="/wiki/Canoga_Park" class="mw-redirect" title="Canoga Park">Canoga Park</a> and <a href="/wiki/Reseda,_Los_Angeles" title="Reseda, Los Angeles">Reseda</a>.<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> </p><p>She was targeted for recall in 1979, a movement that failed for lack of signatures, and she was opposed by the city's police and firefighters' unions, which considered her "anti-labor".<sup id="cite_ref-PicusGoes_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PicusGoes-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 1985 and 1989 elections, Picus was unsuccessfully challenged by Jeanne Nemo, "a Republican activist from <a href="/wiki/Reseda,_Los_Angeles" title="Reseda, Los Angeles">Reseda</a>" who was supported by Supervisor <a href="/wiki/Michael_D._Antonovich" title="Michael D. Antonovich">Michael Antonovich</a>. Picus recalled that "My opponents were sending partisan mailings to registered Republicans, so I did my own mailing, signed by <a href="/wiki/Maureen_Reagan" title="Maureen Reagan">Maureen Reagan</a>, who's been a friend since we campaigned for the <a href="/wiki/Equal_Rights_Amendment" title="Equal Rights Amendment">Equal Rights Amendment</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-SpotlightOn_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SpotlightOn-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Picus won the 1989 vote by a 51.5% majority.<sup id="cite_ref-ValleyVoters_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ValleyVoters-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Picus's 16-year incumbency ended in 1993 with her loss to <a href="/wiki/Laura_Chick" title="Laura Chick">Laura Chick</a> by 17 percentage points.<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> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Highlights">Highlights</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joy_Picus&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Highlights"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html 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class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joy_Picus&action=edit">improve it</a> by removing <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Spam" title="Wikipedia:Spam">promotional language</a> and inappropriate <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links#Advertising_and_conflicts_of_interest" title="Wikipedia:External links">external links</a>, and by adding encyclopedic text written from a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view" title="Wikipedia:Neutral point of view">neutral point of view</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">November 2023</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li>In the first year of her service, Picus was said to have "naively" slashed into "City Hall's flock of <a href="/wiki/Sacred_cow_(idiom)" title="Sacred cow (idiom)">sacred cows</a>, for example trying to delete funding for the <a href="/wiki/Watts,_Los_Angeles" title="Watts, Los Angeles">Watts</a> Parade and the Police Band from the city budget.<sup id="cite_ref-PicusAYear_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PicusAYear-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later, though, she was successful in ending the city practice of "paying for city employees attending veterans' conventions on city time, the full-time salaries of seven police and fire union lobbyists at City Hall and performances of the Police Band and motorcycle drill team on city time."<sup id="cite_ref-PicusGoes_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PicusGoes-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Picus became popular among local conservationists, pushing <a href="/wiki/Real_estate_developer" class="mw-redirect" title="Real estate developer">builders</a> to create more open space for parks, supporting transportation projects, and her drive to address waste recycling.<sup id="cite_ref-SpotlightOn_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SpotlightOn-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She also opposed oil drilling in the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Palisades,_Los_Angeles" title="Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles">Pacific Palisades</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-PicusAYear_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PicusAYear-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>She was active in developing policies and programs on behalf of working parents and their children. She authored the city's Childcare Policy, "which made Los Angeles one of the first cities in the country to hire a full-time child-care coordinator." She also drove the opening of a child-care center for <a href="/wiki/Civic_Center,_Los_Angeles" title="Civic Center, Los Angeles">Civic Center</a> employees in Downtown Los Angeles, financed by the city and federal governments. In 1989, she persuaded the City Council to create preferences in city contracts for companies that offered child-care benefits to their employees.<sup id="cite_ref-SpotlightOn_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SpotlightOn-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Picus was critical of Police Chief <a href="/wiki/Daryl_Gates" title="Daryl Gates">Daryl Gates</a> because she did not believe he told the truth when he denied knowing that a member of the Police Department's Intelligence Division "was taking files out of <a href="/wiki/Parker_Center" title="Parker Center">Parker Center</a> and using them for political purposes." She supported a plan to make department heads—including the chief—"subject to review and possible removal at periodic intervals."<sup id="cite_ref-SpotlightOn_3-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SpotlightOn-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>She pushed for a successful 1978 ballot measure that limited veterans' advantage points on Civil Service tests because the practice discriminated against women and non-veterans.<sup id="cite_ref-PicusGoes_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PicusGoes-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-PicusAYear_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PicusAYear-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>According to a <i>Los Angeles Times</i> interviewer, Picus was dubbed by some as a "<a href="/wiki/Mary_Poppins_(character)" title="Mary Poppins (character)">Mary Poppins</a>," from the " 'flighty impression' she sometimes conveys." She replied that her "preparation for political life came from activities primarily with other women," and so she was not "taken as seriously" as men. She emerged, the reporter wrote, "as a woman of enormous ego and drive, with tremendous energy and determination."<sup id="cite_ref-PicusGoes_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PicusGoes-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Along with two other council members and the city itself, she was sued by the developers of a proposed office complex on Warner Ridge in <a href="/wiki/Woodland_Hills,_Los_Angeles" title="Woodland Hills, Los Angeles">Woodland Hills</a> for their efforts in attempting to block the development. The developers won, but "unrelated factors led them to abandon the project."<sup id="cite_ref-PicusFound_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PicusFound-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>A Picus proposal to set up four independent planning commissions to make decisions in different parts of the city was rejected 10-3 by the City Council.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ms._magazine"><i>Ms.</i> magazine</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joy_Picus&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Ms. magazine"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Picus was named a "Woman of the Year" by <i><a href="/wiki/Ms._(magazine)" title="Ms. (magazine)">Ms.</a></i> magazine in 1985 as a result of her successful drive to include an historic "<a href="/wiki/Male%E2%80%93female_income_disparity_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Male–female income disparity in the United States">pay equity</a>" plan in the city's collective bargaining agreement with the <a href="/wiki/American_Federation_of_State,_County_and_Municipal_Employees" title="American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees">American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees</a>. Also known as "comparable worth," the effort refers to upgrading pay rates for jobs that were paid lower wages because they had traditionally been held by women. The magazine credited Picus with "helping bring about a $12 million pay equity agreement between the City of Los Angeles and 3,900 of its employees, most of them women."<sup id="cite_ref-OnlyPolitician_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OnlyPolitician-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SpotlightOn_3-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SpotlightOn-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joy_Picus&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1996 the City Hall South Childcare Center was renamed the Joy Picus Learning Center in her honor.<sup id="cite_ref-PicusFound_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PicusFound-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Joy Picus Archives covering her years as a Los Angeles City Councilwoman are held at the University Library at <a href="/wiki/California_State_University,_Northridge" title="California State University, Northridge">California State University, Northridge</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <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=Joy_Picus&action=edit&section=7" 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 .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 33em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-OnlyPolitician-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-OnlyPolitician_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-OnlyPolitician_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-12-28-me-29662-story.html">Allan Jalon, "Only Politician Among 12 Honored," <i>Los Angeles Times,</i> December 28, 1985</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-PicusGoes-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-PicusGoes_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-PicusGoes_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-PicusGoes_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-PicusGoes_2-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-PicusGoes_2-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-PicusGoes_2-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-PicusGoes_2-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.proquest.com/docview/152745685">Penelope McMillan, "Picus Goes From Novice to Adviser," <i>Los Angeles Times,</i> March 22, 1981, page C-1</a> With map of district.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-SpotlightOn-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-SpotlightOn_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-SpotlightOn_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-SpotlightOn_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-SpotlightOn_3-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-SpotlightOn_3-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-SpotlightOn_3-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-SpotlightOn_3-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-SpotlightOn_3-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-SpotlightOn_3-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dbase1.lapl.org/webpics/calindex/documents/07/518083.pdf">"Spotlight on . . . Third District Councilwoman Joy Picus," <i>Civic Center NewSource,</i> June 24, 1991, pages 1 and 2</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dbase1.lapl.org/webpics/calindex/documents/07/518083.pdf">Los Angeles Public Library reference file on Joy Picux</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.proquest.com/docview/156780964">"AAUW Announces Projects for the Year," <i>Los Angeles Times,</i> August 13, 1971, page SF-8</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-TempleAliyeh-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-TempleAliyeh_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-TempleAliyeh_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-12-02-me-4170-story.html">Eric Slater, "Temple Aliyah Will Honor Joy Picus," <i>Los Angeles Times,</i> December 2, 1994</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.proquest.com/docview/422043269">Marc Porter Zasada, Architecture: The Stars Go Hollywood," <i>Los Angeles Times,</i> February 12, 2006, page E-1</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.proquest.com/docview/158291007">Sid Bernstein, "Joy in Picus Camp," <i>Los Angeles Times,</i> June 2, 1977, page E-1</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.proquest.com/docview/155156523">"Incumbent Councilman One of Three in 3rd District Race," <i>Los Angeles Times,</i> March 28, 1965, page SF-C-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-03-01-me-508-story.html">Richard Simon, "Antonovich Asks Supporters to Give Money to Picus Foe," <i>Los Angeles Times,</i> March 1, 1989</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ValleyVoters-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-ValleyVoters_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-01-02-me-2537-story.html">John Schwada, "Valley Voters May Witness Spirited Race for Council," <i>Los Angeles Times,</i> January 2, 1993</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-06-10-mn-1634-story.html">Greg Krikorian, "Joy Picus and Joan Milke Flores Had Almost 30 Years Experience," <i>Los Angeles Times,</i> June 10, 1993</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-PicusAYear-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-PicusAYear_13-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-PicusAYear_13-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-PicusAYear_13-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.proquest.com/docview/158628422">Pat Anderson "Picus: A Year Learning the Game," <i>Los Angeles Times,</i> July 30, 1978, page SF-C-1</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">On another occasion, a <i>Times</i> headline read "Picus Drops Her 'Mary Poppins' Image to Give Bitter Medicine to Chief."<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.proquest.com/docview/153384454">February 9, 1983, page C-1</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-PicusFound-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-PicusFound_15-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-PicusFound_15-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-jul-18-me-13849-story.html">Angie Chuang, "Picus Found Her Niche in Valley Causes," <i>Los Angeles Times,</i> July 18, 1997</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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