Mayor Larry Agran

Mayor Larry Agran was in office from 1982-1984, 1986-90 and 2000-2004

Born: 1945 (age 77 years), Chicago, IL

Raised in Southern California, Larry Agran graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California at Berkeley in 1966, majoring in both History and Economics. In 1969, he graduated with honors from Harvard Law School, where he specialized in public interest law.

He and his wife Phyllis and their young son, Ken, moved to Irvine in 1973 so that Phyllis could attend UCI Medical School.

Larry has served on the Irvine City Council for more than 20 years, including 10 years as Mayor of Irvine. He has just been elected to to another term on the council.

While on the Council, Larry pioneered policies to strengthen the Irvine Master Plan by instituting growth control policies, establishing affordable housing, drafting & implementing the County’s first Human Rights Ordinance, successfully stopping an airport, and winning public approval of a sweeping Open Space Preservation plan — setting aside more than 10,000 acres of wilderness in a natural open space preserve that surrounds the City and will remain forever free of development.

Larry and Phyllis continue to live in the same modest University Park home they purchased in 1976. Their son, Ken, and daughter-in-law Kerrie reside in West Irvine with their two children, Morgan and Benjamin.