Background
Richman, Keith Stuart was born on November 21, 1953 in Syracuse, New York, United States.
Richman, Keith Stuart was born on November 21, 1953 in Syracuse, New York, United States.
Born in Syracuse, New York, Richman graduated from Birmingham High School in 1971 and earned his Bachelor of Science in 1975 from the University of California, Davis, where he played baseball and was named an All-Conference pitcher.
From 2000 to 2006, he served in the California State Assembly representing the 38th Assembly District based in Northwest Los Angeles County. As part of the 1972 University of California Davis baseball team, he was named to the University of California Davis Baseball Hall of Fame. In 1998, he was named the Collegiate Alumnus of the Year by the American Baseball Coaches Association.
In 1978, Richman earned his Master of Public Health from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health and his Doctor of Medicine from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine.
After graduating from University of California, Los Angeles, he was a medical doctor and served as the Chairman of the Board of Lakeside HealthCare, Incorporated., a health-care provider. Richman was elected Mayor of the City of San Fernando Valley in 2002, but was unable to take office, as the San Fernando Valley"s bid to secede from Los Angeles failed after voters in the remainder of Los Angeles rejected independence for the Valley.
In 2006 he sought the Republican nomination for California State Treasurer but lost to Board of Equalization member Claude Parrish 56%-44%. He also chaired the Valley Community Clinic Board.
Richman died at Ronald Reagan University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center on July 30, 2010, after a battle with brain cancer.
Commissioner City Redevelopment Agency, Los Angeles. Member Sun Valley Rotary Foundation. Chair task force intercollegiate athletics California State University, Northridge.
Past chair Valley Community Clinic, advisory board. Member of American Diabetes Association (chapter founding president), Rotary.
Married; 2 children.