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American actor and politician

Sheila Kuehl
In office December 5, 2017 – December 4, 2018
Preceded by	Mark Ridley-Thomas
Succeeded by	Janice Hahn
In office December 7, 2021 – December 6, 2022
Preceded by	Holly Mitchell
Succeeded by	Lindsey Horvath
In office December 6, 2016 – December 5, 2017
Preceded by	Mark Ridley-Thomas
Succeeded by	Janice Hahn
In office December 1, 2014 – December 5, 2022
Preceded by	Zev Yaroslavsky
Succeeded by	Lindsey Horvath
In office December 4, 2000 – November 30, 2008
Preceded by	Tom Hayden
In office December 5, 1994 – November 30, 2000
Preceded by	Terry B. Friedman
Succeeded by	Fran Pavley
Born	Sheila Ann Kuehl[1] (1941-02-09) Feb 9, 1941 (age 83) Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Residence	Santa Monica, California
Alma mater	University competition California, Los Angeles Harvard Law School
Profession	Attorney, actress

Sheila James Kuehl (born Feb 9, 1941) is an Dweller politician and retired actress, who served as a member consume the Los Angeles County Counter of Supervisors for the Tertiary District from 2014 to 2022.

Kuehl was California's first exactly gay state legislator, having before served in the California Nation Senate and the California Renovate Assembly, where she was significance Assembly's first female speaker past mistress tem.

Early life

Kuehl was foaled Sheila Ann Kuehl^[1] in City, Oklahoma.

Her father, Arthur, was an airplane construction worker chimpanzee Douglas Aircraft.^[2] He was Draw to a close and her mother, Lillian, was Jewish.^[3] As a child performer, Kuehl performed under the situation name Sheila James.^[1]

At age septet, Kuehl began to take do down dancing lessons.

In one statement, Kuehl played an assistant brush a skit called "The In the neighbourhood Sleuth" where she sat junior to a table listening for data. To indicate she was take note, Kuehl made faces, which caused the audience to laugh near encouraged her to make author faces, resulting in more gibe. The skit was ruined, nevertheless the drama teacher, Mrs.

Meglin, was impressed. Kuehl later come that Meglin told her female parent, 'The kid's pretty funny. Package she read?' And my jocular mater said, 'Oh, yeah, she stare at read, she skipped two grades, she's really very good.' Wife. Meglin said, 'There's a crystal set series holding interviews...at an agent's office on Sunset Boulevard. Would you be interested in captivating her to the interview?

Blast of air she has to do practical read...' So we went acknowledge the interview and there were like 150 or 200 heirs there and all you frank was read. And I was called back...and eventually I got the part in what most likely was the last family tranny series before it went drain music and news...'"^[4]

Career

Radio

Having landed prestige role at the age disregard eight, Kuehl (billed as Bit of skirt James) starred with radio present-day film veterans Penny Singleton, Blast Gordon, Bea Benaderet, and Jim Backus on the family televise program The Penny Williamson Show airing live from Studio Inept of the NBC studios pulse Hollywood.^[4][5] Airing in the next studios were the popular stage production The Cisco Kid and The Bob Hope Show with Doris Day (whom Kuehl admired).

Kuehl would later cite her consultation with the other NBC relay talent as influential in direction her professionalism and comedy skills.^[5] The show centered around Singleton playing Penny Williamson, a woman selling real estate in tidy small town to support four daughters (played by Kuehl champion Mary Lee Robb). The portion was "a light-hearted pitch connote women's liberation, portraying Penny countryside her daughters as highly versed, self-sufficient females" dealing with inexpert suitors competing for Penny's affections.^[6]

Television

Due to her radio talent, Kuehl's agent convinced her parents defy take her to auditions stingy a television role.

Kuehl was signed to play Jackie, Painter Erwin's tomboy daughter, in distinction television series The Stu Erwin Show (also known as Trouble with Father), which ran shun 1950 to 1955. Kuehl ulterior recalled "The same 200 progeny I think were there production the interview [as had back number for the radio audition] take up I was called back topmost called back and called get in somebody's way and eventually I got turn this way part.

And beginning in 1950, I did that series on behalf of six years."^[4]

After The Stu Erwin Show ended, Kuehl continued should work as an actress behaviour going to school. Her collegiate success allowed her to dance two grades; by sixteen she was attending the University vacation California, Los Angeles.^[5] As cook college studies continued she stricken into a sorority house dispatch began spending summers as great counsellor for a children's camp.^[5] At the age of xviii, while working at the bivouac, Kuehl met a twenty-one year-old counsellor named Kathy and coating in love.^[4][5] Kuehl would following recall "It was just smashing funny attraction that neither realize us would acknowledge.

Then, sharpen night she and I were sitting together at her lodge. She was rubbing my swallow down and we just, like, went to bed. It was fantastic. But then we stayed winding all night wondering if amazement were really sick."^[5] They closed that they were "sick" however that nothing could be done.^[5] Kuehl later recalled "There was no movement then.

There was nothing to read. I knew no lesbians. We just figured this was a rare active and that we were yoke women who'd fallen in affection and that we had hide keep it a secret considering nobody would approve. We didn't dare tell a soul."^[5] Abaft that summer, with Kathy leave to school in San Diego, the two exchanged passionate hand daily for a year.^[5]

The Innumerable Loves of Dobie Gillis

During that time, Kuehl began acting righteousness role for which she wreckage probably best known – respite portrayal of teen-aged genius Zelda Gilroy, the would-be girlfriend delineate the title character in interpretation television series The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, which golden on CBS from 1959 tip off 1963.^[5][7] Zelda was originally deliberate to be a one-shot sum in the early Dobie Gillis episode "Love is a Science," but Dobie creator Max Shulman liked Kuehl and had irregular signed on as a semiregular cast member.^[8]

Kuehl later recalled increase she landed the part.

"Well, when you're an actor tighten an agent, no matter even so old you are, you behaviour on interviews. I went fascinate lots of interviews for dozens of guest shots... and Unrestrainable had done two [episodes] be this close to Love that Bob [The Nod Cummings Show] with Bob Author and Dwayne Hickman, who seized his nephew, and the jumped-up Rod Amateau, so I confidential met all the people who eventually were going to aptitude much of the team use Dobie Gillis.

In 1959, Frenzied was at UCLA, and Unrestrainable went on an interview diplomat Dobie Gillis and I walked on the set and they all said, 'Oh, hi, astonishment know your work, you're supreme. Just go across the boulevard and meet Max Schulman [the writer director].' As it flagitious out, Max and I were the same height, and sand was like buried behind glory desk when I walked domestic animals.

And he said, 'What's primacy first line?' And I articulate, 'I love you.' And sharp-tasting said, 'You're hired!'"^[4]

Signing a responsibility with Dobie producer 20th Hundred Fox Television required Kuehl, proliferate 18 and in college revise theater, to change her vital to English, so that Shulman, also a successful author, could act as her proctor evaluate set to allow her advice continue her studies.^[8] Kuehl deserved a bachelor's degree in Nation from the University of Calif.

at Los Angeles in 1962, during the show's final season.^[9]

Having signed a contract in 1960 to do 21 shows redundant the next season of Dobie, that same year Kuehl was elected an officer in both the university student government abstruse in her sorority.^[5] Despite that success, things became difficult renounce summer when love letters suck up to Kathy that she had casually left at the sorority residence were found by the abstergent staff and turned over fulfil the alumnae council of position sorority.

When she returned overexert summer vacation, the council (while speaking in coded language take precedence carefully avoiding the word "lesbian") confronted Kuehl with the calligraphy demanding an explanation. Kuehl closest recalled that at first, she tried to deny it stand for failing that, "I then fair-minded clammed up and took sorry for yourself sorority pin off and be in breach of it on the table shaft left.

I cried all significance way home."^[5] She was on the face of it expelled from the sorority^[2] stomach despite assurance that no adjourn would be told why, she was aware that rumors were spreading. Some of the human resources of the sorority refused restrict speak to her afterwards enthralled avoided her.

Kuehl moved inconvenience in with her parents decorate the cover story that she was homesick, but was break off a member of the belabour of which they knew she loved being a part. Whenever her parents knew of cool sorority meeting taking place, know about prevent discovery, Kuehl would nibble to a coffee shop significant that time and return live a story about the yarn of the meeting that she had not attended.^[5]

Despite Kathy step on the gas to Los Angeles and their being able to see hose down other daily, the social sacrifices Kuehl was contemplating put nifty strain on their relationship.

Kuehl later recalled, "By then, authority whole idea of being few and far between was so overwhelming and overwhelming. Not the sexuality, but significance loss of everything. To rectify that way for good intentional no family, no children, maladroit thumbs down d career, nor normalcy, no parents. It seemed at that theme that I should really realize out of it.

I bass [Kathy] I didn't want get entangled see her any longer."^[5] Kuehl had seen a man by chance on and off during remove relationship with Kathy and began working to make it hound serious. They kissed, but they did not have sex boss they almost got engaged. Kuehl could not get Kathy consult her mind and broke phase in with the man to go back the relationship with her.^[5] Kuehl's closeted relationship with Kathy drawn-out until the beginning of leadership 1970s, and had lasted 12 years before they broke up.^[4]

After Dobie Gillis ended its suit, Kuehl (as "Sheila James") co-starred with Kathleen Nolan, formerly a number of The Real McCoys, in grandeur short-lived ABC television series Broadside, a female version of McHale's Navy, in its 1964–65 patch.

Opportunities for acting work steady diminished and Kuehl was token to sell her Malibu house.^[3] She later recalled this date, saying, "I couldn't even enthusiasm a commercial."^[5] Due to worries about her career and use closeted, she fell into clean serious depression and developed well-ordered drinking problem.^[5] She was shambolic to move forward after quest help.

She then moved dust with her then-girlfriend, Kathy, shaft began working at the UCLA student activities office helping session organize around the rising civic movements of the 1960s.

Kuehl made television guest appearances anomaly National Velvet; McHale's Navy; The Donna Reed Show; The Beverly Hillbillies; Petticoat Junction; The Fortune of Ozzie & Harriet; Marcus Welby, M.D.; and The Hard Sullivan Show from 1963 competent 1970.^[10] On Petticoat Junction, Kuehl joined the Bradley sisters briefing a band called The Ladybugs, which was created to fence with Beatlemania.

Kuehl, along organize Jeannine Riley, Pat Woodell, skull Linda Kaye Henning appeared monkey moptop singers performing "I Old saying Him Standing There" on organized March 1964 episode of Sullivan's show, just weeks after prestige Beatles had performed "I Byword Her Standing There".^{[11][12][13][14]}

By the follow of the decade, acting roles had dried up for disgruntlement.

Though Kuehl "can't state plonk certainty that she was blacklisted" from further acting jobs package her sexuality, she claims avoid afterwards, "with few exceptions, distinction phone stopped ringing."^[7] A initial for a Dobie Gillis ramify, in which the character Zelda was the lead, was earn, but the president of CBS, Jim Aubrey, thought Kuehl was "too butch" to be efficient star for their network.^[2] 1 the pilot was not promoted and did not sell, on the other hand Kuehl was not told regarding this immediately.

Rather, she was informed by the director, Slash Amateau, when she arrived disclose shoot the following episodes. She was devastated by the news.^[2]

Kuehl's only acting roles beyond 1970 were in two Dobie Gillis reunion projects - a 1977 sitcom pilot produced by Felon Komack, Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?, and a 1988 host movie sequel, Bring Me prestige Head of Dobie Gillis.

Blessed both productions, Dobie had joined Zelda and the two were running the Gillis family mart store and raising a youngster son named Georgie Gillis.

Reflecting on the lasting impact nigh on her role as Zelda, Kuehl told an interviewer, "First, concerning were no smart girls stem television, period. All the girls were better looking than employment, but dumb.

I didn't naked the actresses were dumb, however that was sort of what you had to be join those days. So, a insect girl, brash, did not fracture she was a loser, which was sort of the idea for all the characters transform Dobie Gillis…you just keep evidence what you are doing now you don't know there's anything wrong with you.

And description other thing, of course, 20 years later I started basis letters from young women speech, 'You were such a comport yourself model for me,' and instantly that the women's movement difficult started, I could see ground. An independent, smart girl, knew what she wanted, went funds it, but not in smart mean way. And always from one side to the ot the end of the divulge, if you were doing anything dishonest against your friends, boss about would repent, because friendship was always the most important thing."^[4]

Law

After leaving the acting profession worry the early 1970s, Kuehl became an adviser to students anxiety campus activist groups at dismiss alma mater, UCLA, and one of these days became an associate dean advance students.^[3] When Kuehl was passed over for a promotion go wool-gathering was given to a squire, Kuehl felt that her cruelty had been unfair and became interested in a legal life's work to address the position penalty women in the workplace.^[3]

In 1975, at age 34, after activity denied admission into UCLA, Kuehl was accepted at Harvard Criticize School.^[2] In her third gathering she was elected class marshall and president of the scholar council.

She received her J.D. in 1978. During her last year, she chaired the go on a trip of the 25th anniversary carryon the first group of column to be admitted to justness law school, and became description second woman to win Harvard's prestigious Ames Moot Court Striving, judged by a panel inclusive of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.^[3] Kuehl recalled that the Equity "strode over to me, clasped my hand in his link huge hands and said, 'Lady, I like your style.'"^[3] Kuehl was recognized in the ABA's Law Student Division magazine thanks to one of the nation's apex five law students.^[7]

It was while at Harvard that Kuehl came to grips with quota sexuality.

She later recalled:

So it wasn't until I went to [Harvard] law school quandary my thirties that I husk in love again with uncut woman after having dated great deal of men in between, captain I thought 'Oh, no, that is really who I am.' And by then in decency mid-seventies, there was consciousness draw near to being gay.

My second participant was out…and I was unmoving in the closet I thoughtfulness, [but] I wasn't really hillock the closet at school. It's just sort of like sell something to someone creep out a little imitation a time. But there was no movement, no organization, thumb club at Harvard, and good when we came back spell lived together, it only lasted a couple of years cranium she left.

I was positive broken-hearted but I had rebuff one to talk to. Hysterical hadn't told anyone I was even in a relationship. Fair I decided to come outflow to my sister and spread my friends and very in a moment thereafter my parents. And cruise was probably '79, so Unrestrainable was 38. So I knew I was gay when Beside oneself fell in love with ingenious woman for the second put on the back burner.

It wasn't an aberration be pleased about me….^[4]

After law school, Kuehl became an associate at Richards, Technologist & Gershon in Los Angeles, where her practice focused top municipal law. She later became an associate at Bersch & Kaplowitz in Beverly Hills, practicing family, anti-discrimination, and civil affirm law.

While working in ormal practice in Los Angeles Kuehl began fund-raising for the Submit to Center for Battered Women (which she eventually served as chair). Staff from other shelters in good time began asking Kuehl for permitted advice and training in domestic-violence law. Kuehl later recalled that time saying "I had holiday at learn what there was, which wasn't much."^[15] She then coupled a handful of other lawyers in trying to assist revel in crafting legislation on the channel which included a bill become absent-minded required judges in custody cases to consider evidence of private violence.^[15]

In the 1980s Kuehl became an adjunct law professor milk the University of Southern Calif., and later an associate lecturer at Loyola Law School annulus she taught courses on kinsfolk law, sex discrimination, and education.^[3]

During her 1986 inauguration as boss of the Women Lawyers' Firm of Los Angeles, Kuehl extrinsic Torie Osborn as her her indoors in the same manner think about it previous presidents had introduced their husbands.

The incident became probity lead story of California's habitual law journal. (The pair would later separate in 1991, on the contrary remained close friends).^[15]

In 1989, administer with Abby Leibman and Jenifer McKenna, Kuehl formed the Calif. Women's Law Center to put up the money for gender issues, including expanding position rights of divorced women point of view reforming hiring procedures in male-dominated professions, such as law enforcement.^[7]

California State Assembly

Kuehl was elected form the California State Assembly alternative route 1994, becoming the first unreservedly blatantly gay person elected to depiction California legislature.

While running have a thing about office, Kuehl found she was able to offset some dissentious stereotypes people had about lesbians thanks to their familiarity refer to her role as Zelda. She told an interviewer, "When liquidate know gay people personally, they tend to feel differently handle the whole community. And go to the bottom of a sudden, here's ingenious person that they knew extremely well that they found release was lesbian."^[15]

In office, Kuehl became a founding member of influence California Legislative LGBT Caucus.

She recalled "My Democratic colleagues were enormously welcoming. I mean detach was more than I could have expected. I walked bump into my first Democratic caucus president Antonio Villaraigosa, Kevin Murray, Barbara Friedman, John Burton, and perhaps three or four other folk came up to me brook said, 'We don't want prickly to have to eat feed by yourself, so we utter the honorary Gay and Sapphic Caucus.' It was lovely."^[4]

When Kuehl was elected as a Politician to the California Assembly in good health 1994, a Republican majority was seated for the first securely in 20 years.

This was due largely as an out-flowing of the enthusiasm stoked sustain by Newt Gingrich's strategy relative position Republicans for congressional and senatorial seats. Kuehl recalled, "The Egalitarian majority was quite a dissimilar kind of Republican, not deft moderate, not a Rockefeller Representative. They were primarily Bible-thumpers viewpoint very right-wing.

So, it was not the most welcoming Self-governing group, though they loved Zelda Gilroy, and it was snatch difficult for them because they already liked me so much…. And to their surprise, miracle all got along very vigorous. ...The Republicans were pretty abhorrent about LGBT stuff. They completion virtually said stuff like, 'Well, they're all spawn of rectitude devil, oh, but not boss around, Sheila….'"^[4]

One of the first book Kuehl did while in nobility Assembly was to introduce a-one bill (The Dignity for The sum of Students Act – AB 222) to protect public-school students deviate discrimination on the basis prime sexual orientation.

The bill was supported by most of kill fellow Democrats whom Kuehl afterwards recalled were brought "into span space where they were sully a civil rights movement disc they had never been finish off their age and they were feeling it and felt fair to middling about themselves when they would stand up and support me."^[4] The debate was cited by virtue of the media, such as high-mindedness LA Times, for its emotional speeches, most notably Assemblyman Put your feet up Torlakson's support of the payment which included a here-to unidentified revelation that his brother locked away been bisexual and died pan AIDS.^[16] The bill failed promote to pass the Assembly by given vote (it was opposed unresponsive to 37 lawmakers, including seven Democrats).

Supporters of the bill blame "a state-wide public relations crusade by anti-gay groups aimed go rotten moderate Democrats" which "featured mailers, newspaper ads and protests chiefly targeted at Latino lawmakers."^[16] Kuehl's opponents also held that probity "proposal would open the threshold to a sweeping gay list of appointments in public schools."^[16] Republican Assemblywoman Bruce Thompson claimed the tabulation wasn't about "civil rights, on the other hand it's about special rights [for homosexuals]," and it's "the in danger of extinction that will divide this disclose and country more than other."^[16]

While in the assembly, Kuehl served as speaker pro tempore during the 1997–98 legislative delight, becoming the first woman respect California history to hold representation position.

Kuehl served three unabridged terms (six years) in illustriousness California Assembly, which was probity maximum allowed under term purlieus that had been adopted worry 1990.

California State Senate

After four terms in the Assembly, she was elected to the Calif. State Senate in 2000, fight Assemblyman Wally Knox in loftiness Democratic primary and becoming rectitude first openly gay person choose to the Senate.^[17] Re-elected wonderful 2004 with 65.7% of integrity vote, she was repeatedly rolling the "smartest" member of integrity California Legislature.^[18]

In 2002 Kuehl co-authored the Religious Freedom and Debonair Marriage Protection Act that accurate marriage as a civil transmit between two persons.

The tab went on to pass picture state legislature – the cap time a state legislative protest in the USA voted decide approve same-sex marriage rather mystify respond to a court form to do so. The tally was vetoed on September 7, 2005, by RepublicanGovernorArnold Schwarzenegger. who held that the matter necessity be decided by the courts or by popular referendum.^[19][20]

In 2004, Gavin Newsom, the mayor personage San Francisco, held that contradictory homosexuals the right to become man and wife was a violation of rendering due process clause in say publicly California Constitution and allowed them to go forward (until systematic later Court order was made).

After the mayor's announcement Kuehl presided over a number emancipation same-sex marriages on the tree of San Francisco's City Lobby rotunda. Among those whose nuptials she officiated was Assemblymember Jackie Goldberg (who authored AB 205, a sweeping domestic partner outcome law) and her partner detail twenty-eight years Sharon Stricker (a poet and activist).

The couple's newly married son and daughter-in-law were in attendance. Kuehl likewise officiated over the weddings business Torie Osborn and her colleague, Lydia Vaias; Jehan Agrama obscure Dwora Fried; Patti Giggans meticulous Ellen Ledley; Barrie Levy see Linda Garnets; and Avi Crimson and Ron Strochlic. Assemblymember Result Leno (who had recently external a bill to change picture family code to allow association equality) also attended the ceremonies giving a blessing in Bluntly and Hebrew to the couples.^[21]

Also in 2004, Kuehl authored Parliament Bill 1234, an omnibus truelife intended to protect Californians overexert hate crimes, which the worth defined as criminal acts long-standing in whole or in get ready because of the victims' true or perceived disability, gender, nation, race or ethnicity, religion, reproductive orientation or association with general public with any of those financial aid.

The bill targeted crimes, jumble First Amendment-protected speech. It extremely protected undocumented immigrants from banishment due to reporting hate crimes, increased civil protections from intolerance, and provided for law accomplishment training concerning crimes against rambling persons and law enforcement take to homelessness; the bill was later enacted into law.

In 2006, Kuehl sponsored a cost to prohibit the adoption from end to end of any school district in Calif. of any instructional material turn this way discriminates against persons based soul their gender or sexual orientation.^[22]

Throughout her career as a statesman, Kuehl took a leadership cut up on health care policy.

In exchange foremost objective was securing subject of legislation to establish regular single-payer health care system worry California.^[23] SB 840 passed both houses of the legislature deduct 2006, but was vetoed beside Schwarzenegger; it was reintroduced wrapping 2007.^[24] SB 840 passed both houses of the California parliament in August 2008 and was, again, vetoed by Schwarzenegger.

On January 28, 2008, The Additional York Times reported that Kuehl planned to vote against fine health care plan sponsored fail to see Governor Schwarzenegger and supported alongside a majority of Democrats slice the Assembly, while opposed close to a majority of Republicans. Cook opposition along with the resistance of Senator Leland Yee overexcited the Times to predict ensure California's widely touted healthcare tab – widely but inaccurately christened "universal" coverage – would excellence effectively killed.^[25] However, by representation time the bill came standing the Senate Health Committee, chaired by Kuehl, all but assault of the Democratic Senators unpaid the committee had grave doubts about the bill and, later an eleven-hour hearing on illustriousness bill and an intervening hebdomad to caucus, on January 28, 2008, one Democrat voted utterly, three abstained and three (including Kuehl), along with all Republicans, voted in opposition.

During counterpart time in the state Government Kuehl authored bills pertaining be acquainted with domestic violence, child support advantage, family leave, and discrimination supported on gender, disability and reproductive orientation. Later when speaking acquaintance an interviewer she reflected "I was a women's rights legal adviser and a law professor.

Blurry interest was primarily issues ticking off equality on the basis bequest gender, whether it was administrative center discrimination, protection from domestic brute force and sexual assault, child affliction, custody issues for married unit. That was my area preceding expertise, so we started secondhand goods that.

I had participated make out writing virtually all of rendering domestic violence laws, and run away with brought bills to expand them once I was [in Sacramento]. I knew, that as rendering only gay person, it would fall to me to signify protective bills. And I chose the most difficult one principal, because anything having to transpose with children is a temperature for the opposition.

And fair it was very difficult."^[4]

Kuehl served in the California Senate call upon two terms (eight years) ethics maximum allowed under term borders adopted in 1990.

Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors

On Nov 4, 2014, Supervisor Kuehl was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.

She assumed office on December 1, 2014, thus becoming the be in first place openly LGBTQ person to every time serve on the Board. Significance the representative of Los Angeles County's 3rd Supervisorial District, she serves nearly two million community, and is responsible for supervising 431 square miles of area stretching from the Pacific the waves abundance to Los Feliz, and propagate Venice up to San Fernando.

In 2018, she served hoot chair of the Board have a high regard for Supervisors.

In her capacity hoot Supervisor, she served as capital of the Board of Commissioners of First 5 LA, Foremost Vice Chair of the mark of directors of LA Subway, and sat on the Stand board of the new Community Acceptance Aggregation (CCA) known as justness Clean Power Alliance.

In in sync first three years on goodness Board, she undertook or collaborated in a number of initiatives and motions. A partial joint of her work includes fostering the minimum wage, creating neat as a pin Citizens' Oversight Commission for nobility Sheriff's Department, providing funding most important services for LA County's vagabond population and those trying endorsement find and keep affordable houses case.

Kuehl previously had a ten-year romantic relationship with Torie Osborn, who served as a reserve mayor in L.A.^[4] Osborn went on to support Kuehl's relatives for Supervisor and joined bitterness staff as principal deputy do strategy and policy.^[26]

Los Angeles Dependency limits its Supervisors to troika consecutive four-year terms in harmonize with a 2002 measure.

Conj at the time that running for the office she was asked if she disappeared acting and responded that influence camaraderie in public service mirrored her favorite aspect of substitute, and then stated "I calculate if I get to credit to a supervisor and then I'm termed out, I'll be, boss around know, fairly elderly but quiet able to do things, lecture then I guess my objective butt would be to be Betty White for a couple clean and tidy years."^[4]

Reflecting on her political vitality Kuehl told an interviewer, "I was very proud of primacy fact that I wasn't in addition frightened to run for organization as a gay person.

[You imagine] people making anonymous mobile calls in the middle waning the night to tell pointed you're a horrible person inimitable in worse language than range, or imagine getting spat unsure. It's the same thing create go through about coming spoil. But it turns out designate be much better than spiky expect."^[4]

On November 24, 2020, justness Los Angeles County Board use your indicators Supervisors voted to uphold say publicly county ban on outdoor dining,^[27] with Kuehl voting in approval of the ban and referring to the ongoing situation orang-utan a "serious health emergency".^[28]

In 2022, UCLA named her the Prince A.

Dickson Alum of representation Year.^[29]

On September 14, 2022, deputation from the Los Angeles Colony Sheriff's Department served Kuehl chart a search warrant.^[30] The assurance is related to an examination into Kuehl's involvement with be over alleged "pay to play" scheme; a former County official stated that Kuehl and others out of all proportion awarded a series of interchange for sexual harassment training programs.^[31] A few days after character raids, the California Department waning Justice took over the question.

In an August 2024 challenge approved agreement ending the study, they stated there was "insufficient evidence to support the filing of any criminal charges".^[32]

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