Mel Levine was born and raised in Los Angeles. He represented the Los Angeles area in the US Congress for ten years and in the state Assembly for 5 1/2 years and was recognized as one of the area’s most effective and respected legislators. Both before and after his service as a legislator, he has been a practicing lawyer, in the past 24 years with the Los Angeles-based international law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He was an avid fan of the minor-league Hollywood Stars and, in their honor, started an adult league Hollywood Stars baseball team in 1971, on which he still plays and which begins its 47 years of competition in March 2017.
