Hilda Solis

Hilda Solis is the Chair of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and a former U.S. Secretary of Labor who previously served in the state Assembly, state Senate, and U.S. House.¹ She identifies housing, groceries, childcare, and healthcare as components of the district's biggest challenge: a cost of living that has outpaced wages.¹ She has proposed rolling back tariffs and prioritizing tax relief for working families, and supports comprehensive immigration reform with a permanent pathway to citizenship.² She authored a Board of Supervisors motion opposing proposed U.S. Census changes that would exclude certain immigrants from the count used to apportion House seats.³ She said she would support reversing cuts to Medicare and Medicaid and wants to expand Medicare's ability to negotiate drug prices.⁴

As supervisor, she hosted the opening of three new behavioral health facilities at the Restorative Care Village, including a psychiatric facility, a withdrawal management facility, and a 24-hour mental health urgent care center.⁵ She also moved to ban AI hyperscale data centers in unincorporated county areas, citing concerns about public health and environmental protections.⁶ She announced an additional $250,000 investment to distribute health-code-compliant food carts to street vendors, bringing the county's total program investment to $1.78 million.⁷ Her official website states she convened county departments for a recovery update following a major warehouse fire and opposed the warehouse operator's permit application to rebuild.⁸ She joined officials to break ground on 202 affordable homes on the site of a former children's center.⁹