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Background for Phil Mendelson

Chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia since June 2012, when colleagues selected him after the previous chairman resigned; elected chairman in 2012, 2014, 2018 and 2022. At-large councilmember from 1999 to 2012, chairing the Committee on the Judiciary 2005-2012, and earlier an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner.