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The city of Mountain View has announced who it plans to name as its next city attorney: Jennifer Logue, who has more than 22 years of legal experience and a long tenure at the City Attorney’s Office in Oakland, according to a Feb. 3 statement.
Logue was selected after an extensive search, and the Mountain View City Council is expected to appoint her to the role at its next meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 8, according to the announcement.
She is expected to begin April 18 with a starting annual salary of $293,000. She will take on the role that was vacated when former City Attorney Krishan Chopra retired in December. In mid-December, Jannie Quinn was appointed to serve as interim city attorney through the spring. Quinn was the first woman to serve as Mountain View’s city attorney and came back to fill in after retiring in August 2019 following 24 years working for the city.
“I am honored to be selected to serve as the next city attorney for the city of Mountain View,” Logue said. “I look forward to working with the City Council, department head team and city attorney’s office staff on Mountain View’s strategic priorities. I am eager to begin serving this great city with excellence, compassion and integrity.”
The city attorney’s role includes representing and advising the City Council, city advisory bodies and departments in legal matters. Logue is expected to oversee and office of four attorneys, two code enforcement officers and two legal support staff members, according to the announcement.
“We were seeking a highly qualified municipal legal advisor who has strong experience with policy development and we found exactly these qualities and more in Jennifer Logue as our next city attorney,” said Mountain View Mayor Lucas Ramirez.
Logue, he said, “has the right combination of legal aptitude, supervisory experience and strategic management of complex legal issues to help further the City Council’s vision of Mountain View as a welcoming, vibrant city that plans intentionally and leads regionally.”
For the past three years, she has worked as a supervising attorney with the Oakland City Attorney’s Office, and worked as a senior deputy city attorney for about seven years before that. She has also worked as a senior motions attorney and a senior research attorney in the Criminal Division for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, as a litigation associate in private practice and as a deputy city attorney in litigation with the city of Oakland.
She holds a bachelor of arts degree from Whittier College and a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center.
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