Elected to the City Council in 2019, Lewis is wrapping up his first four-year term in office. Prior to that he spent two years as an assistant city attorney in the Seattle City Attorney’s Office and about a year as an assistant deputy prosecutor in the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.
Much of the Council’s work in the past three years was responding to the pandemic. Lewis counts some of those efforts among his proudest first-term accomplishments. He helped expand JustCare, an intensive homeless outreach program focused on moving people out of encampments Downtown. Lewis helped launch the Third Avenue Project to address drug dealing and other illegal activity Downtown,
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