Holly J. Mitchell

Sen. Holly J. Mitchell led Senate Floor honors to honor retiring LAO Mac Taylor, who's retiring at the end of the December after a 40-year helping provide non-partisan analysis on budget issues. 

Sen. Holly J. Mitchell on why she supports Stronger CA's 2018 legislative agenda. "No one on the day their child was born thought ‘I’m going to do the bare minimum for my child.,' " she said. "I support creating the best possible world so ALL our children can thrive."

Sen Holly J. Mitchell highlights efforts by the National Conference of State Legislators to address juvenile justice issues.

Sen. Holly J. Mitchell from the Senate Floor honors USC Women’s Track Team on winning national title.

Sen. Holly J. Mitchell today expresses outrage on federal policy detaining immigrant children during a vote on Senate Joint Resolution 29, which calls upon the President and the United States Congress to acknowledge that the separation of immigrant children from their families at the border is detrimental to the short- and long-term physical and mental well-being of the children and incompatible with our fundamental values as a nation.

Sen. Holly J. Mitchell on why she supports Stronger CA's 2018 legislative agenda. "No one on the day their child was born thought ‘I’m doing to do the bare minimum for my child.,' " she said. "I support creating the best possible world so ALL our children can thrive."

Watch, listen to Senate President Toni Atkins and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon praise the role Sen. Holly J. Mitchell and Asm. Laura Friedman played during recent hearings on the Legislature's sexual harassment-prevention training. This interview took place during a recent Sacramento Press Club event moderated by LA Times Sacramento Bureau chief John Meyers.

Watch, listen as the California Senate honors Fellow Alan Moore of Elk Grove, who served the 2018 session in the office of Sen. Holly J. Mitchell.

LOS ANGELES – Sen. Holly J. Mitchell’s Christmas in July event hosted hundreds of students and family members, with each guest presented with free admission, a food voucher, Metro day pass and a gift bag which included thunder sticks to cheer on the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women’s National Basketball Association at the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles. While the game keyed on fun, Mitchell’s eighth annual Christmas-in-July event was part of her years-long effort to engage children to stay mentally, physically and nutritionally active during summer break.

Sen. Holly J. Mitchell issued the following statement Monday in response to a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge ruling that the court will hear evidence that the state of California is failing hundreds of thousands of public school students — most of them low-income students and students of color — by allowing a system that requires children to attend school yet deprives them of access to basic literacy instruction: