Elizabeth M. Calciano currently serves as Assistant City Attorney for the cities of Rolling Hills and Monterey Park. She is an attorney at Jenkins & Hogin and provides legal services to many of the firm’s public agency clients. Ms. Calciano’s practice includes advisory work and the prosecution of municipal code violations as well as civil litigation matters. She has experience with a wide range of municipal laws including land use, environmental, open meeting, public records and conflict of interest laws.

Ms. Calciano has nearly two decades of legal experience. She began her career in municipal law working for six years at Burke, Williams and Sorensen. During that time she served as the Assistant City Attorney for the City of Chino Hills, Assistant General Counsel for the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments and the Acting Assistant City Attorney for the City of Glendora. In 1998, Ms. Calciano began what became a long sabbatical representing abused and neglected children at all stages of juvenile dependency proceedings. She joined the Children’s Law Center of Los Angeles where she developed her trial practice, including more than one hundred trials and over five hundred formal mediations. She served as a Legislative Deputy for Children and Education for Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina in 2006, during which time she advised Supervisor Molina on legislative issues impacting children and worked with County department heads to improve the condition of children throughout the County of Los Angeles. Ms. Calciano returned to the field of municipal law in 2007 at Jenkins & Hogin.

In 1988, Ms. Calciano earned her B.A. degree, cum laude, in government and legal studies from Bowdoin College, Maine, where she also served as the chairperson of the student government. She earned her J.D. from the University of California, Hastings Law School in 1992.
Ms. Calciano has made the following presentations in recent years:

• “How to Prosecute a Code Enforcement Case – Ethics, Warrants and Administrative Citations (Part II)” at the 2010 City Attorney’s Department, League of California Cities 
• “Code Enforcement Update” at the 2009 Annual Conference of California Association of Code Enforcement Officers 
• “The Ins and Outs of Conflicts And Public Notice” (one of three panelists) at the 2008 American Planning Association, California Chapter, Annual Conference

Through the years, Ms. Calciano has authored a number of publications, among them: “Questioning Child Witnesses: A Few Simple Techniques Can Help Child Witnesses Provide Accurate Information,” published in Los Angeles Lawyer in June 2000, and the "United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Will It Help Children In The United States," which was published in the Hastings International and Comparative Law Review, 1991-1992 volume.

In addition to her law practice, policy work and publications, Ms. Calciano has served on numerous boards and task forces. She served as the president of the Barristers of the Los Angeles County Bar Association from 2002 to 2003 and served on the Barristers Executive Committee for many years prior. She served as a member of the board of directors of the Los Angeles County Bar Foundation from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2004 to 2006, and was a member of the board of directors of Public Counsel from 2000 to 2003. She served as a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association Juvenile Courts Task Force from 1999 to 2002. She has also served as member of the board of directors of several nonprofit charitable organizations.

Ms. Calciano and her husband Tom Fagan have three young sons. Consequently, she is also knowledgeable in matters pertaining to Spiderman, Superman and Speed Racer.