Board

Jed Leano

Mayor of Claremont

Jed Leano is serving his first term on the Claremont City Council (November 2018 - November 2022).

Jed serves as chair of the San Gabriel Valley Regional Housing Trust Board, Vice Chair of Tri-City Mental Health Board, and Claremont’s representative to the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments (SGV COG) Homelessness Committee.  He represents the SGV COG on the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) Community Economic and Human Development Committee (CEHD), charged with the Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) methodology, and represents SCAG on the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee (MSRC), charged with overseeing programs to reduce motor vehicle air pollution.  He serves as chair of the Claremont Lincoln University MPA program Advisory Council and Vice Chair of the Filipino American Democratic Caucus of the CA Democratic Party.

 Prior to his election to City Council, Jed served as the Vice Chair of Claremont's Community and Human Services Commission and was the founding Chair of Housing Claremont.  Since 2011, he has served as lead attorney for the quarterly immigration and naturalization clinic at the Claremont United Methodist Church. He was founding board member and lead attorney of the Neighborhood Immigration Clinic in 2009, a state-wide pro-bono immigration law clinic, and served as Board Chair from 2012-2014. Prior to moving to Claremont, Jed resided in Pasadena, CA where he served as 80th President of the Pasadena Jaycees and National Legal Counsel for the United States Jaycees.

Jed works as an immigration attorney in private practice in Pasadena, CA. He obtained his J.D. from Rutgers School of Law and B.A. from the University of Kentucky. He and his wife Liz have one son, Welles.