Michael Francis Eng (;Mike Eng for State Senate, Biography /ref> born September 14, 1946) is an American politician serving as one of five members of the
California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board
The California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board is a quasi-judicial administrative court in the U.S. state of California which hears appeals from determinations on unemployment insurance claims and taxes by the Employment Development Depa ...
(CUIAB) since 2019. A member of the
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, he was appointed to the body, an administrative court system for workers and employers, ruling on work-related benefits, by State Assembly Speaker
Anthony Rendon
Anthony Michael Rendon (, ; born June 6, 1990) is an American baseball third baseman for the Los Angeles Angels of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played for the Washington Nationals and was a member of the Nationals' 2019 World ...
.Michael Eng - Board Member - CUIAB /ref> Eng previously served in the Monterey Park
City Council
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(2003–2006) and California State Assembly (2006–2012); he was Mayor of Monterey Park from 2004 to 2005. He was elected to the
Los Angeles Community College District
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Board of Trustees in 2013 and served until 2017.Mike Eng - Member of the Board LACCD /ref>
Biography
In 2004, Eng became Mayor of
Monterey Park, California
Monterey Park is a city located in the western San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County, California, United States, approximately from the Downtown Los Angeles civic center. The city's motto is "Pride in the past, Faith in the future". Mo ...
, an office he held until 2005.
Eng has served as a City Councilman, State Assemblyman and Community College Board Vice President. He has also served as Vice Chair of the State Board of Acupuncture and President of the Monterey Park Library Board of Trustees. While in the Assembly, he chaired the Committee on Transportation, Committee on Business and Professions and Committee on Banking and Finance.
In 2018, he ran for the California State Senate, but was defeated in November by Baldwin Park City Councilwoman Susan Rubio.
He founded a downtown immigration law firm and has also been on the teaching faculty at California State University, Los Angeles, UCLA, Los Angeles Trade Tech College and University of the West.