Five Term City Councilman and Author of "Citizen Cohn"

Steve Cohn was one of the longest serving City Council members in the history of Sacramento, serving a record five terms on the City Council from 1994 to 2014. He was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. He has a bachelors degree from Yale University, a J.D. from the University of San Diego and a diploma from the Université d’Aix-Marseilles, France, where he was a Fulbright Scholar and met his wife Catherine. They have lived in Sacramento since 1979, raising two children. Cohn was an attorney for the California Energy Commission from 1979 to 1992, then served as Chief Assistant General Counsel for the Sacramento Municipal Utility District until he retired in 2011. In 2016, he published his first book “Citizen Cohn”. He is currently working on a novel due out in late 2017 or early 2018.

Book description:

Facing surgery to remove a brain tumor, Sacramento City Councilman Steve Cohn wrote this memoir chronicling his life’s story, from his grandfather’s daring escape from the Russian Army in Ukraine during WWI and Cohn’s childhood in mid-century Missouri, to his adult life in Northern California, where he raised a family and enjoyed a career as attorney for the nation’s most progressive electric utility and civic leader for “America’s Most Livable City.”