Hilda L. Solis
LA County Board of Supervisors

Hilda L. Solis was sworn in for her third term as Los Angeles County Supervisor for the First District of Los Angeles County in December 2022, having first taken office in 2014. She represents the San Gabriel Valley, Northeast LA, and the Eastside.
As Supervisor, equity has guided her, and she has enacted significant changes to assist and uplift the most vulnerable residents. This includes accelerating county efforts to combat homelessness in authoring the groundbreaking Measure A to invest in communities without open green space, reimagining public safety by investing in ‘Care First, Jails Last’ and expanding healthcare access in areas of need.
Supervisor Solis previously served as U.S. Secretary of Labor, becoming in 2009 the first Latina to serve in the Cabinet. She also represented the 32nd Congressional District in California from 2001 to 2009, with priorities that included expanding access to affordable health care, protecting the environment and improving the lives of working families. A recognized leader on clean energy careers, she authored the Green Jobs Act, which provided funding for “green” collar job training for veterans, displaced workers, at-risk youth and individuals in families that were under 200% of the federal poverty line.
Supervisor Solis was appointed to the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (the Helsinki Commission), elected vice chair of its General Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions—the only U.S. elected official to serve on it. She also was a member of the Mexico-United States Interparliamentary Group.
Additionally, Supervisor Solis’ public service has included the Rio Hondo Board of Trustees and both chambers of the California State Legislature. She broke the glass ceiling repeatedly by becoming the first Latina ever elected to the state Senate. A nationally recognized leader on the environment, she became the first woman to receive the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award in 2000 for her pioneering work on environmental justice issues. Her California environmental justice legislation, enacted in 1999, was the first of its kind in the nation to become law.
She graduated from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and earned a Master of Public Administration from the University of Southern California. A former federal employee, she worked in the Carter White House Office of Hispanic Affairs and was later appointed as a management analyst in the Office of Management and Budget Civil Rights Division.