About Peggy

Councilwoman Peggy Huang is dedicated to serving Yorba Linda, her home for 21 years, where she and her husband raised their children together.  She was a City Councilwoman from 2014-2022 and then returned to the City Council in 2024.  She served as Mayor of Yorba Linda in 2017 and 2021. 

On the City Council, Peggy is fighting for the interests of Yorba Linda, particularly local control, improving the business climate, and advancing public safety.  Having worked in the Orange County District Attorney’s office and the California Department of Justice as a prosecutor, she is determined to maintain Yorba Linda’s status as one of the safest cities in California.  Dedicated to preserving Yorba Linda’s way of life as the land of gracious living, she is a statewide leader in the Our Neighborhood Voices effort to restore the right of local communities to control housing construction, rather than letting developers use Sacramento mandates to force high-density housing into neighborhoods. Since Peggy came on to the Council, our city has accelerated payments to reduce Yorba Linda’s pension liability payment plan from 30 years to 20 years, and we have funded more into the City’s medical trust to pay for the City’s medical liability.

Active in the community, she started the Yorba Linda Neighborhood Watch.  Currently on the Lifesteps Foundation Board of Directors, she previously served on the Providence St. Jude Foundation Board of Directors and the Valencia High School Site Council.  She was also active in the Yorba Linda Women's Club and the National Charity League.

Currently a Senior Deputy City Attorney in the Huntington Beach City Attorney’s office, Peggy previously worked in the Orange County District Attorney’s office.  In her professional life, she has been an advocate for abused, neglected, and developmentally delayed children.  She spent much of her career in the California Department of Justice, where she prosecuted defendants who abused and neglected clients in facilities licensed by the California Department of Social Services and where she represented foster children in juvenile court.

Peggy was involved in winning passage of two laws that protected abused and neglected children.  She successfully advocated for the decoupling of the Child Welfare Entitlement (Title IV-B) from the Federal Welfare Reform Act and protecting the Social Security Block Grant (SSBG) from reduction to ensure funding for at-risk and foster children. She also worked on efforts for water storage and delivery. 

She earned her undergraduate degree at the University of California, Berkeley, and her law degree from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. 

Peggy and her husband, Dr. James Huang, are the proud parents of two daughters, who both graduated from Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District schools.