Supervisor Representing Pasadena Now Part of All-Women L.A. County Board of Supervisors

Pasadena-area representative Supervisor Kathryn Barger (left) and State Senator Holly Mitchell (right). (Courtesy photos)

If Tuesday’s voting results hold up, and former L.A. City Councilmember Herb Wesson is formally defeated, state Sen. Holly Mitchell will be the fifth member of an all-woman five-member Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.

In Tuesday’s election for the Board of Supervisors’ 2nd District seat, which was left vacant by outgoing Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, Mitchell was running against Wesson to replace Ridley-Thomas, who ran for Wesson’s Los Angeles City Council’s District 10 seat against lawyer and community leader Grace Yoo.

While Wesson failed to take Ridley-Thomas’ seat, Ridley-Thomas did not fail to take Wesson’s, defeating Yoo by a 61.25 to 38.75 percent margin in the District 10 election.

In the county Board of Supervisors’ District 2 race, lavote.net reports that Mitchell, who is up for election to her state Senate seat in December 2022, won 280,912 votes, or 60.86 percent of the ballots cast.

The remaining 39.1 percent of the vote, or 180,696 ballots — a full 100,000 votes fewer than Mitchell won — went to Wesson, who had served on the L.A. City Council since 2015.

Mitchell’s victory means that all five county supervisors will be women for the first time.