Councilwoman Linda Northrup Resigns Amid Cancer Battle

AGOURA HILLS, CA — Council member and former mayor Linda Northrup is stepping down from Agoura Hills City Council effective immediately, she announced Monday in a letter to her colleagues.

Northrup decided to leave after finding breast cancer recovery more difficult than expected, she said. Northrup was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2020.

"As you all know, the past two years have been particularly difficult for me and my family as I fought cancer during the global pandemic," Northrup wrote in a letter to the council, Mayor Deborah Klein Lopez and City Manager Nathan Hamburger. "My prognosis remains very positive; however, recovery has been a much greater challenge than I ever could have imagined."

Northrup served on the planning commission from 2011 to 2015 before being elected to City Council in 2015 and serving as mayor in 2018. She was recently named the Conejo Valley Chamber of Commerce's Woman of the Year 2022.

"My work with all of you gave me inspiration and hope and was just one more reason I was determined to win the biggest fight of my life," Northrup said. "It's been the honor of my life to serve the City of Agoura Hills, where I grew up and raised my own family, as a Planning Commissioner and Member of the City Council," Northrup said.

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