Steve Cooley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Steve Cooley

Los Angeles District Attorney

Date of Birth: 01-May-1947

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States

Profession: lawyer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Stephen Lawrence Cooley (born May 1, 1947) is an American politician and prosecutor.
He was the Los Angeles County District Attorney from 2000 to 2012.
Cooley was re-elected in 2004 and again in 2008. In 2010, Cooley won the Republican nomination for California Attorney General against John C.
Eastman and Tom Harman in the June 8 primary election.
During the general election campaign, Cooley said he would defend Proposition 8, a 2008 ballot measure that banned same-sex marriages in California but was then being appealed in the federal courts.
Cooley lost to the Democratic nominee, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris, in the November 2 general election, a close race whose results were not finalized until November 24, 2010.