Capitol Weekly’s Top 100: Andrew Antwih

57. Andrew Antwih

Andrew Antwih is a partner at one of the state’s top lobbying firms, Shaw, Yoder, Antwih, Schmelzer and Lange, whose clients include Boeing, FedEx, the organizers of 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, both the city and county of Los Angeles and Tesla. Before joining the firm, he was Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s chief legislative representative for the city and also worked for nearly 13 years as a legislative staffer in the building, including eight as the Chief Consultant to the Assembly Transportation Committee. But what makes Antwih special is his breadth of knowledge on a wide array of issues, from health care and transportation to technology, housing and local government. Even now he is known for reading every word of every bill he plans to lobby for to understand the proposal down to the granular level. Not an assistant, him. There is no issue too complex, no problem too daunting, no effort too demanding, and his clients know it. He is married to California Teachers Association’s Associate Executive Director Teri Holoman, No. 8 on this list.

Updated Aug. 26, 2025