Lormong Lo

Who is Lormong Lo?

Lormong Lo was the first Hmong American to be appointed to a city council in the U.S, in 1994, to manage the largest metropolitan city of a state like Nebraska. He was re-elected in June 1997 to a second full-term from 1997 until June 2001.

In June 1997, Lo is the first Hmong ever to become president of a city council in the U.S., Omaha City Council, who presided over the official meetings of the council. He is the first to ever hold the title of Acting Mayor of the City of Omaha starting in June 1997.

Lo was the first Hmong American to ever become elected President of the Asian Pacific American Municipal Officials by his APAMO colleagues, a constituency group of the National League of Cities, in Washington, D.C.. He was selected to be Vice-Chair of both the Economic Development Committee and the Program Committee of NLC. In these positions, he helped write municipal policies, e.g., housing and economic development policies for the 15,000 cities in the United States and was responsible for its conference planning. He often lobbied the U.S. Congress and White House officials on policies of interest to the cities, especially credit, economic, housing and immigration policies.