Steve Soboroff
American businessman
Steve Soboroff (born August 31, 1948) is an American businessperson who served as a Los Angeles Police Commissioner from 2013 to 2023. Soboroff was President of the Los Angeles Recreation and Parks Commission between 1995 and 2000. He was on the L.A. Harbor Commission and worked as Senior Advisor to Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan. Soboroff ran for Mayor of Los Angeles in the 2001 election and placed third.
Soboroff was the Chairman and CEO of Playa Vista. He was on the Board of the Weingart Foundation for 22 years, seven of which he was Chairman, and served for 20 years on the Board of MaceRich Company (NYSE). In September 2011 he was appointed by the California Science Center to be the Senior Advisor to the museum in its project with NASA to bring, and permanently exhibit, the Space Shuttle Endeavour. He is Chairman of the Maccabiah Games Committee of 18. Soboroff was Chairman of the Center for the Study of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University, and was a Senior Fellow and member of the Advisory Board at UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs.
Early life and education
Soboroff was raised in a middle-class, secular Jewish family in Chicago, the son of Evelyn and Irving Soboroff.
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