PERSON: Lindsey Horvath

Los Angeles County

Supervisor

Lindsey Patrice Horvath (born June 30, 1982) is an American politician, advertising executive, and activist. She is currently serving as a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for the 3rd District, which covers the San Fernando Valley, and served as Chair of Los Angeles County in 2024. She was previously a Councilmember for West Hollywood, California and was twice its mayor.

Horvath was born in 1982 in Painesville, Ohio, growing up in Wickliffe, Ohio and Las Vegas, Nevada before going to the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. She has one younger brother but comes from a large family, with her parents being the youngest of multi-sibling households. She attended Catholic schools in Ohio and private high school in Las Vegas. As a teenager, Gloria Allred and Hillary Clinton were some of her role models, both of whom she would later meet. While at Notre Dame, Horvath was a registered Republican, but switched her party affiliation to Democratic in 2003. She graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2004 cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in political science and gender studies. At Notre Dame, she participated in a performance of The Vagina Monologues which caused controversy with the administration, and also was vice president of the College Republicans.

She moved to Los Angeles, California after graduating from college intending to go into law school, and attended musical theater school instead. After working in advertising, she founded the Hollywood chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW). In 2007, she was appointed to the Women’s Advisory Board for West Hollywood, and was elected chair after eight months.

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