In December of last year, Darrel Steinberg was officially sworn in as the new Mayor of Sacramento. He is the city’s 56th Mayor. He was elected for this post in June of last year and boasts a history of local politics. A Democrat, Steinberg was leader of the California State Senate’s majority party between 2008 and 2014 as well as the California Senate President pro Tempore. Prior to that he was a California State Assembly member (from 1998 to 2004) and even earlier, a member of the Sacramento City Council (a position he took on in 1992 for the duration of six years).