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    Julian Nava, trailblazing LA politician and US ambassador, dies at 95

    LOS ANGELES — In the spring of 1980, Julian Nava found himself about to become a pioneer again. The Boyle Heights native had gone through his life as a man of firsts. First Mexican American student body president at East Los Angeles College. One of the first Mexican Americans to earn a doctorate from Harvard. The first Latino elected to the Los Angeles Unified School District board of ...
    by Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times Jul 30, 2022 6 minutes
    Photos of Julian Nava on the campaign trail for his successful L.A. Unified School District trustee race that appeared in the July 23, 1967, edition of the Los Angeles Times.

    LOS ANGELES — In the spring of 1980, Julian Nava found himself about to become a pioneer again.

    The Boyle Heights native had gone through his life as a man of firsts. First Mexican American student body president at East Los Angeles College. One of the first Mexican Americans to earn a doctorate from Harvard. The first Latino elected to the Los Angeles Unified School District board of trustees. One of the masterminds behind a pivotal television series about the Chicano experience.

    Now, President Jimmy Carter had appointed Nava as the first-ever Mexican American U.S. ambassador to Mexico.

    He sat down with the L.A. Times for an interview shortly after the Senate approved his nomination. Nava told this paper that while the choice of him for the role was "historically significant... after the novelty wears off, all that really matters is what kind of job you do."

    It was an apt summation of a man

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