Shelley Hasselbrink will again serve as Mayor of Los Alamitos, and she will be joined atop the Los Alamitos City Council by Tanya Doby as Mayor Pro team.
A quick check of the records seems to confirm that this is the first time two women have held the top two council positions in the city’s 61-year history. Previously, Alice Jempsa and Marilynn Poe had both been on the council at the same time (1994-98) but never seeed to have held the top two posts at the same time. Catherine Driscoll was also on the Council the same time as Jempa (2004-06) and Poe from 2006-08, but the city’s quite partisan political dynamics at the time for the officially non-partisan post “discouraged” them from serving together.
Hasselbrink was elected in 2014, and Doby was appointed in 2019 when long-time Mayor Warren Kusumoto had to move to the Washington DC area. Dopby then won the district in 2020.
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