Get to Know Me
I am Marjorie Mikels, Green Party Candidate for California Attorney General, endorsed by the Peace & Freedom Party. Those two parties have coalesced this election as the “Left Party Slate”.
I’m a grandmother pursuing justice as an attorney/peace activist. With a Law Degree from UCLA, I stand for Human Rights. I’ve opposed Wars and military dominance and oppression my entire life.
I uphold the rights of brave ordinary people and grassroots organizations fighting for protection of land, water, air, forests and natural resources against powerful special interest.
My first foray into politics was in 1968 while a Sociology graduate student at University of Washington. I walked door-to-door in Seattle registering voters for Eldridge Cleaver, an Oakland Black Panther Peace and Freedom candidate for President.
I fell in love at a Sociology convention in 1970, and Jon and I left grad school and with our backpacks traveled for a year across Europe, North Africa and throughout the Middle East. We traveled overland through that whole stretch from Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.
When we returned to California, Inland Empire, (where I was born and raised), we got jobs, settled down and started our family. I was a social worker, and he was a youth counsellor, until we each returned to school, he for a Master’s Degree in public administration at USC and me for my law degree, Juris Doctor, at UCLA.
In 1977, we plunged into the movement to incorporate the City of Rancho Cucamonga, where Jon Mikels was elected to the first City Council, serving nine years, including as mayor, before his election to the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors where he served 16 years. During that time, raising our three girls, I finished law school, passed the bar and started practicing law.
I’ve been a licensed attorney in California for forty-four years, and certified to practice not only in all the State Courts of California, but in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal and before the United States Supreme Court.
All my professional life I have been fighting fraud, and unfair illegal activities that victimize the poor, elderly, widows and orphans and those who pollute and steal our water, and devastate our environment. I have battled powerful persons and governmental entities who used the courts to “eat the property” of ordinary citizens and kick the homeless to the curb.
When I was first approached about running for Attorney General, I laughed. I’m an old woman, who closed down my law offices three years ago to move to the Bay Area to be close to my children and grand ones.
Since then I’ve been a Peace Advocate, using all my energy to combat Genocide and the global corporate military imperial machine of Death and Destruction which threatens all future generations’ life on the planet, and I have been studying International Humanitarian Law. I’ve learned that arming Israel violates at least five federal laws and that it is a crime to be complicit in Genocide.
Since 1849 when California was admitted to the Union, there have been 34 AGs, only one of which was a woman. And that woman failed to take any steps to prevent complicity with Genocide or even speak up against it. I’ve been an only woman before.
When I graduated from UCLA Law School in 1981, passed the bar and took my first lawyer job it was with a 45-year old law firm at which I was their first woman attorney ever hired. Four years later, when I joined another 50-year old law firm, I again was their very first lady lawyer. The axillary organization for my local bar was called “Lawyer’s Wives”.
In 1988, I started my own law firm, Mikels & Associates and we proudly served wonderful clients, families and small business owners for decades out of my 1909 brick office building in downtown Upland.
I spent ten years before law school, as a social worker and mental health therapist, so I am intimately familiar with issues confronting mothers and children and poverty and homelessness and the cruel criminal justice system and its operation disrupting families. My years of law practice showed me how impervious our legal system is to those without money and power.
One judge told me: “It’s not about the facts and it’s not about the law, Mrs. Mikels, it’s about Power, and you ain’t got any.” More than one judge threatened to take away my license, during the years I represented salt-of-the earth clients and families against powerful rich crooks. The chief attorney for one title company, at depositions in the penthouse of an Avenue of the Stars law firm told me: “We’ll bankrupt you and take away your license if you continue with this case”.
But I still stand.
And as Attorney General, if we could hire 1100 justice-loving lawyers, the People of California could fight back.
There are crucial issues arising right now, the current AG won’t tackle but I will pursue if elected.
Please read my Priority Issues and support my campaign.
Vote for me, Marjorie Mikels,
and the Left Unity Slate on June 2, 2026!
