Todd Gloria

Todd Rex Gloria (born May 10, 1978) is an American politician serving as the 37th and current mayor of San Diego since 2020.

As mayor, he is the chief executive officer in the city of San Diego.

He is a member of the Democratic Party.

Gloria was first elected to public office representing District 3 of the San Diego City Council.

Gloria was then elected to represent California's 78th State Assembly district, which encompasses much of San Diego.

While in the Assembly, he served as House Majority Whip.

He was then elected as a representative of the 78th District of the California State Assembly, and rose to the position of the Majority Whip.

He established legislation addressing issues in San Diego such as housing and homelessness, gun violence, and global warming.

He was the vice chair of the California Legislative LGBT Caucus.

In 1989, he was a finalist in then-San Diego mayor Maureen O'Connor's "Mayor for a Day" program.

His father was a Production Controller at General Atomics.

All four of his grandparents moved to the area because of their involvement with the military.

Todd Gloria comes from a Filipino, Dutch, Puerto Rican, and Native American background.

He is a member of the Tlingit Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska.

Gloria completed his college education at the University of San Diego, where he was the student body president.

U.S. Congresswoman Susan Davis had been Gloria's political mentor since they met in 1993, when Gloria was a freshman in high school.

Davis was the director of the Aaron Price Fellows Program, a leadership program for high school students that focused on civic education and cross-cultural understanding.

Mayor Gloria has spent the majority of his entire professional life serving the public.

He began his career at the County of San Diego’s Health and Human Services Agency, and proceeded to join the office of Susan Davis as a community representative.

In 2002, Gloria became Davis's district director, a position he held until his election to the City Council in 2008.

Gloria also served as a San Diego Housing Commissioner from 2005 until 2008.

Openly gay, he is also a former chairman of the San Diego LGBT Community Center and was a resident panelist on San Diego's Prostitution Impact Panel.

Gloria ran for the District 3 seat on the San Diego City Council vacated by the termed-out Toni Atkins in the 2008 election.

He received a plurality of votes in the June 2008 primary, leading to a November run-off election against fellow Democrat Stephen Whitburn, a former journalist, community activist, and ally of then-District 6 Councilmember Donna Frye.

Gloria defeated Whitburn with 54.3% of the vote.

Gloria was chair of the city's Budget and Finance Committee from 2011 to 2016.

Gloria represented San Diego on the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System Board and SANDAG, where he chaired the transportation committee.

As the Council member for District Three, he also took charge in the merger of multiple homelessness organizations in the city of San Diego.

He was president of the nine-member council from 2012 through 2014.

In 2012, he was elected as the President of the City Council.

A year later, after Bob Filner resigned from office, he took office as the interim mayor.

In the 2012 election, Gloria ran for re-election unopposed and was re-elected in the June primary.

As of his second term, District 3 included the neighborhoods of Balboa Park, Bankers Hill/Park West, Downtown San Diego, Golden Hill, Hillcrest, Little Italy, Mission Hills, Normal Heights, North Park, Old Town, and University Heights.

By doing so, Gloria aimed to unify San Diego's allocated resources in the fight to end homelessness in the city.In December 2012, at its first meeting after new members took office, Gloria was unanimously elected to serve as Council President, replacing retiring President Tony Young.

In his role as council president, Gloria served as interim Mayor of San Diego from the August 2013 resignation of Mayor Bob Filner until the March 2014 inauguration of Mayor Kevin Faulconer.

Upon the resignation of Mayor Bob Filner on August 30, 2013, Gloria became the interim mayor of San Diego, with limited powers.

On December 10, 2014, the city council voted 4–5 on a motion of whether to reappoint Gloria as council president for the new term, with Sherri Lightner joining the four council Republicans to defeat the measure.

The council then voted 7–2 to appoint Lightner as council president, with Gloria and David Alvarez in opposition.

In December 2020 he became the 37th Mayor of San Diego.

Gloria and his family grew up in the Clairemont neighborhood of San Diego, where he attended Hawthorne Elementary School.