Stephen Ira Adler has been the Mayor of Austin, Texas since January 6, 2015. He was named a Texas Super Lawyer from 2007–2013 and one of the Best Lawyers in America in 2007–2014. He won reelection in 2018, garnering 59% of the vote in a 7-way race.
About Steve Adler (politician) in brief
Stephen Ira Adler is an American lawyer and Democratic politician who has been the Mayor of Austin, Texas since January 6, 2015. Adler has been a practicing attorney in Austin in the areas of eminent domain and civil rights law for 35 years. For eight years he worked as the chief of staff and later general counsel to Democratic State Senator Eliot Shapleigh in the Texas Legislature. He has also worked with or board chaired Austin-based nonprofits and civic organizations, including the Texas Tribune, Anti-Defamation League, and Ballet Austin. In March 2015, Adler denounced an anonymous group’s attempt to inflame discussion of gentrification in historically black neighborhoods of East Austin by placing stickers on the doors of businesses that proclaimed them off-limits to non-whites. In May 2017, when the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Austin announced it would hold a movie-only screening of the movie Wonder Woman, one man wrote an angry email about the event.
In April 2017, he warned the writer that his email account had been hacked and that he had been warned that his response had been hacked by an angry man. In September 2016, he was selected as the City’s first Chief Equity Officer. He was named a Texas Super Lawyer from 2007–2013 and one of the Best Lawyers in America in 2007–2014. He won reelection in 2018, garnering 59% of the vote in a 7-way race. He is the first mayor to serve as part of the \”10–1\” City Council system that was approved via referendum by voters during the 2012 election and implemented after the 2014 election. Previously, the Austin City Council was composed of six at-large Council members and a mayor. The new system is composed of a mayor and ten Council members representing geographic districts.
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