Bonnie Lowenthal

Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners

President

Bonnie Lowenthal is President of the Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners, elected to the post in July 2024 by her colleagues on the five-member Board. First named to the Commission in July 2017 and reappointed to a second and final six-year term in May 2023, during her tenure, she has served a previous one-year term as President and two one-year terms as Vice President and Secretary. She brings a broad history of public service and deep experience in the City of Long Beach, formerly serving as a state Assemblymember, Long Beach City Councilmember, Vice Mayor, and member of the Long Beach Unified School District Board.

Ms. Lowenthal has spent most of her life in Long Beach, her adopted hometown, since attending graduate school at California State University, Long Beach. In addition to her political career, she has served the community as a licensed family counselor, mental health consultant, educator and commissioner to various city commissions.

          Her pre-political work is rooted in the local Cambodian community and in service to the Latino community, making sure that the residents of her working-class district were well represented and taking an active role in affordable housing.

          During her three terms in the State Assembly, Ms. Lowenthal’s district included the Long Beach/Los Angeles port complex – the nation’s largest – and one of the most diverse populations in the state. She helped deliver more than 18,000 good-paying transportation-related jobs during the height of the Great Recession and authored laws to develop the California Freight Plan and protect coastal waters from invasive species. She chaired the Legislative Women’s Caucus, the Assembly Committee on Transportation, the Joint Committee on Emergency Management, and the Select Committee on Ports and other select committees.          

          Bonnie Lowenthal earned a Bachelor of Science in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin and a Master’s of Science in Community and Clinical Psychology from California State University, Long Beach.