Approved as to Form and Legality
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City Attorney’s Office
OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL
RESOLUTION NO. _________ C.M.S.
INTRODUCED BY CITY ATTORNEY BARBARA J. PARKER
RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING JENNIFER LOGUE ON
APPOINTMENT AS CITY ATTORNEY FOR THE CITY OF MOUNTAIN
VIEW AND EXPRESSING PROFOUND GRATITUDE FOR JENNIFER
LOGUE’S STELLAR SERVICE TO THE CITY OF OAKLAND AS A
DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY IN THE LITIGATION DIVISION AND AS
THE SUPERVISING ATTORNEY FOR THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT
& FINANCE UNIT IN THE ADVISORY DIVISION OF THE OAKLAND CITY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE
WHEREAS, on February 8, 2022, the Mountain View City Council appointed Jennifer Logue as City Attorney for the City of Mountain View; and
WHEREAS, Jennifer earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Whittier College and graduated from Georgetown University Law Center, and Jennifer has dedicated all except one year of a more than 20-year legal career to public service; and
WHEREAS, prior to joining the Oakland City Attorney’s Office, Jennifer was a senior staff attorney for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit where for five and one- half years Jennifer researched an d analyzed substantive issues in a wide range of subject areas, including criminal, environmental, immigration, c ivil rights, and intellectual property law and provided written and oral recommendations to the justices for dispositions of motions, petitions for review, writ petitions and appeals, wrote bench memoranda and drafted judicial decisions; and Jennifer was awarded the Certificate of Distinguished Service for Exceptional Work Performance; and
WHEREAS, Jennifer first joined the Oakland City Attorney’s Office in July 2006 as a Deputy City Attorney in the litigation division; and
WHEREAS, as a litigation attorney , Jennifer served as lead counsel in numerous increasingly complex civil rights, personal injury, wrongful death, premises liability, property damage, breach of contract, wrongful termination and property damage cases, litigating in stat e and federal court on behalf of the City of Oakland, its officers, employees and agencies and serving as lead counsel in more than 60 cases, handling all aspects of the caseload including factual investigation, case evaluation, drafting pleadings, taking and defending depositions, propounding and responding to written discover, alternat ive dispute resolution, motions practice, court appearances, trial and appeal; and
WHEREAS, Jennifer quickly established herself as a n exceptional litigator by successfully defending two City of Oakland employees in a major federal civil rights jury trial within the first six months of her employment with Oakland, and continued to successfully defend
2 the City, its agencies, officers and employees over the next f our years in state and federal trial courts and courts of appeal; and
WHEREAS, in 2010, Jennifer left the City Attorney’s Office to join the private firm of where Jennifer expanded her experience as a public sector attorney and continued to successfully defend cities, school districts, junior colleges and universities in lawsuits filed in state and federal courts; and
WHEREAS, in 2012, Jennifer returned to the City Attorney’s Office as a Senior Law and Motion Attorney handling a wide variety of complex motions, petitions for writ s of mandate and appeals; and
WHEREAS, in 2019, Jennifer was promoted to Supervising Attorney of the General Government & Finance Unit in the Advisory Division of the Oakland City Attorney’s Office where Jennifer served as counsel to the Oakland Police and Fire Retirement System and Board and led a team of four deputy city attorneys who advise city officials and department heads, twenty-four City committees, boards and commissions, and multiple city departments including, but not limited to, the Department s of Finance, Public Works , Transportation, Violence Prevention, Human Services Department and Work Place and Employment Standards; and
WHEREAS, Jennifer brings her extensive knowledge of constitutional, tort, premises liability and municipal law , including Equal Protection, Fourth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment and knowledge of tax, nuisance abatement, Rent Program, land use, Brown Act and Public Records Act and Jennifer’s expertise in legal research and analysis , legal writing and oral argument to bear in litigation, and in providing excellent advice and counsel to City departments, agencies, City officials and Councilmembers and overseeing projects and lawsuits; and
WHEREAS, Jennifer ably and deftly provided advice and counsel to the City Administrator, the Department of Finance and the City Council regardin g complex legal issues related to the development and adoption of the City’s biennial budgets for Fiscal Years 2019 through 2021 and 2021 through 2023; and
WHEREAS, Jennifer was the lead attorney representing the City of Oakland in the City’s successful defense in Jobs and Housing Coalition v. City of Oakland, a lawsuit that challenged the City Council’s certification of the passage of the Children’s Initiative (“Measure AA”), a 2018 voter initiative that established a special parcel tax of $198 per parcel for 30 years to fund education services and career readiness programs for pre -K through college; and Jennifer continued to provide invaluable insight and analysis collabor ating with outside counsel and the City Attorney after Jennifer became the supervisor of the General Government and Finance Unit of the Advisory Division; and
WHEREAS, Jennifer was a key member of the City Attorney’s legal team in the 2017 City of Oakland v. California Waste Solut ions lawsuit regarding CWS’ recycling contract with Oakland, which the City filed to protect City residents from CWS’ practice of charging rates for backyard recycling cart services to multi -family buildings that far exceeded the rate for the same service to single family buildings , overcharging practices that included charges up to 550% of what their contract allowed, overcharges totaling approximately $6 million; under the terms of the settlement, CWS must repay those property owners who were overcharged in a timely fashion and CWS will lower its rates so they are in line with the rates CWS charges for the same backyard service at single-family buildings; and
WHEREAS, Jennifer possesses that rare combination of intellect ual prowess combined with the ability to inspire confidence in her advice and to firmly provide advice that may not be what the client wishes to hear; and Jennifer is a consummate team player, coordinating with other members of the City Attorney’s Office a nd has mentored and trained new attorneys and consistently was attentive and sensitive to the stresses on members of the unit she supervised given
3 the high stakes work and high powered clients that the City Attorney’s Office advises and represents; and
WHEREAS, Jennifer says she learned to be a lawyer as a staff attorney for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, but became lawyer as a deputy city attorney in the Office of the City Attorney; and
WHEREAS, Jennifer expressed appreciation for the opportunity of working in the litigation division and then in the Advisory Division of the City Attorney’s Office which have provided the depth and breadth of experience and expertise that have assisted and equipped her to serve as City Attorney; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED: That the City Council, City Administrator, City Attorney and the City of Oakland express profound gratitude to Jennifer Logue for more than 12 years of stellar service to the City of Oakland as a Deputy City Attorney in the Litiga tion Division and as the Supervising Attorney of the General Government and Finance Unit of the Oakland City Attorney’s Office; and be it
FURTHER RESOLVED: That the City Council, City Administrator and City Attorney thank Jennifer for sharing her brilliance, incisiveness and generosity of spirit and empathy in serving the City of Oakland; and be it
FURTHER RESOLVED: That the City Council, City Administrator and City Attorney congratulate Jennifer Logue on appointment as City Attorney for the City of Mountain View and wish Jennifer success as she continues her illustrious legal career.
IN COUNCIL, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA,
PASSED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
AYES - FORTUNATO BAS, GALLO, GIBSON MCELHANEY, KALB, REID, TAYLOR, THAO
AND PRESIDENT KAPLAN
NOES –
ABSENT –
ABSTENTION –
ATTEST:
ASHA REED
Interim City Clerk and Clerk of the Council of
the City of Oakland, California
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