For the first time in almost a decade, Long Beach will have a new city attorney elected this year.

Two candidates, former City Councilmember Gerrie Schipske and current Assistant City Attorney Dawn McIntosh, are vying for the position. Whoever wins will lead the office charged with advising the city of Long Beach on all legal matters.

On Tuesday, April 26, Schipske and McIntosh answered questions from the Long Beach Post’s managing editor and city hall reporter in the first of our debates leading up to the June 7 primary.

For more, be sure to visit lbpost.com/elections.

 

Jeremiah Dobruck is executive editor of the Long Beach Post where he oversees all day-to-day newsroom operations. In his time working as a journalist in Long Beach, he’s won numerous awards for his investigative reporting and editing. Before coming to the Post in 2018, he wrote for publications including the Press-Telegram, Orange County Register and Los Angeles Times. Reach him at [email protected] or @jeremiahdobruck on Twitter.