Nathan Hochman
2024 - Present
2028
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Nathan Hochman is the Los Angeles County District Attorney in California. He assumed office on December 2, 2024. His current term ends on December 4, 2028.
Hochman ran for election for Los Angeles County District Attorney in California. He won in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Hochman completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Nathan Hochman was born in Los Angeles, California. Hochman received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University and a Juris Doctor degree at Stanford Law School. His career experience includes working as a defense attorney, civil litigator, and appellate counsel.[1][2]
Elections
2024
See also: Municipal elections in Los Angeles County, California (2024)
General election
General election for Los Angeles County District Attorney
Nathan Hochman defeated incumbent George Gascón in the general election for Los Angeles County District Attorney on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Nathan Hochman (Nonpartisan) | 61.5 | 1,421,207 | |
| George Gascón (Nonpartisan) | 38.5 | 891,264 | ||
| Total votes: 2,312,471 | ||||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Los Angeles County District Attorney
The following candidates ran in the primary for Los Angeles County District Attorney on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | George Gascón (Nonpartisan) | 25.2 | 370,654 | |
| ✔ | Nathan Hochman (Nonpartisan) | 15.9 | 234,509 | |
| Jonathan Hatami (Nonpartisan) | 13.2 | 194,755 | ||
| Debra Archuleta (Nonpartisan) | 8.5 | 125,306 | ||
| Jeff Chemerinsky (Nonpartisan) | 7.9 | 116,064 | ||
| Maria Ramirez (Nonpartisan) | 7.1 | 105,088 | ||
| John McKinney (Nonpartisan) | 6.0 | 87,903 | ||
| Eric Siddall (Nonpartisan) | 5.6 | 82,993 | ||
| David Sherman Milton (Nonpartisan) | 4.3 | 63,044 | ||
| Craig Mitchell (Nonpartisan) | 3.0 | 44,326 | ||
| Lloyd Masson (Nonpartisan) | 2.0 | 29,306 | ||
| Daniel Kapelovitz (Nonpartisan) | 1.2 | 17,622 | ||
| Total votes: 1,471,570 | ||||
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Endorsements
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2022
See also: California Attorney General election, 2022
General election
General election for Attorney General of California
Incumbent Rob Bonta defeated Nathan Hochman in the general election for Attorney General of California on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Rob Bonta (D) | 59.1 | 6,339,441 | |
| Nathan Hochman (R) | 40.9 | 4,390,428 | ||
| Total votes: 10,729,869 | ||||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Attorney General of California
Incumbent Rob Bonta and Nathan Hochman defeated Eric Early, Anne Marie Schubert, and Daniel Kapelovitz in the primary for Attorney General of California on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Rob Bonta (D) | 54.3 | 3,756,486 | |
| ✔ | Nathan Hochman (R) | 18.2 | 1,256,465 | |
| Eric Early (R) | 16.5 | 1,142,747 | ||
| Anne Marie Schubert (Independent) | 7.8 | 539,746 | ||
| Daniel Kapelovitz (G) | 3.2 | 219,912 | ||
| Total votes: 6,915,356 | ||||
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Nathan Hochman completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Hochman's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Crime & Public Safety: Under DA Gascón, Los Angeles County has become a haven for criminals. When the DA won’t do his job, criminals take note, and the law-abiding citizens, typically those in more vulnerable and minority communities, suffer the most. I want to restore accountability, justice, safety, and security in LA County, and restore the people’s trust in the DA’s office to get the job done. I will reverse Gascon’s pro-criminal blanket policies with the “hard middle” approach. This approach focuses on individualized analyses of cases to determine appropriate action, given the evidence and law. I would also reverse policies prohibiting prosecutors from accompanying victims at parole hearings.
- Fentanyl: Fentanyl, a drug 50 times stronger than heroin, is responsible for over half of drug overdose deaths in LA County and is murdering hundreds of children a year. It kills indiscriminately across political, geographic, racial, ethnic, religious, and socio-economic lines. Gascón has failed to treat fentanyl poisoners, including serial offenders, as murderers or even adopt the “Alexandra warning” to be given to convicted fentanyl dealers that if they do the crime again and someone dies, they may be charged with murder. On Day One, I will launch a massive local-state-federal task force to combat fentanyl poisoners and simultaneously launch a huge educational effort targeted to children and their parents on the perils of fentanyl.
- Homelessness: The homelessness crisis is one of the most visible failures of leadership. The DA’s Office needs to change the trajectory of addressing LA’s homeless challenges by partnering with law enforcement, municipal agencies, the CARE courts, non-profit organizations, as well as local stakeholders and community leaders, to work on effective programs to help break the spiraling downward cycle of the homeless, over 70% of whom suffer from serious mental illness, substance abuse disorder, or both.
My collaborative philosophy is summed up in the saying that if you don’t care who gets the credit, you can do great things in this world. I am all about the mission of justice and protecting the residents of this county; anyone who wants to contribute productively to that mission from any corner of the Office or outside the Office is warmly invited to the table. Since I don’t fear competing ideas nor do I believe I have a monopoly on the best policies or procedures, I welcome input from those with the best and brightest ideas available.
Moreover, I am the only candidate who has represented law enforcement officers in administrative, civil, and criminal proceedings as well as the only candidate who prosecuted law enforcement officers who blatantly violated the law (narcotics deputies in the 1990s who stole from drug dealers). I am the only candidate who is a co-founder of the L.A. Sheriff’s Foundation, which was started to support the LASD during the summer of 2020 when law enforcement was being attacked. We have subsequently raised over $1 million for everything from a communications crisis center, flak jackets, and ATVs to financial help for the 76 cadets who were run over by a car during their training run. These roles give me credibility when I say that I will always have law enforcement’s back but also will not tolerate anyone, including law enforcement officers, who crosses the criminal line.
Debra Wong Yang, United States Attorney (2002-2006)
Nicola Hanna, United States Attorney (2018-2021)
Terree Bowers, United States Attorney (1992-1994)
Sandra Brown, United States Attorney (2017-2018)
Robert Bonner, United States Attorney (1984-1989)
Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes
Joyce Dudley, former DA from Santa Barbara County
Les Bider, former Chair, Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles
Stanley Gold, former Chair, Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles
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2022
Nathan Hochman did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ U.S. Department of Justice, "Former Assistant Attorney General - Nathan J. Hochman," December 3, 2020
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 5, 2024
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