Solis Confirmed as Secretary of Labor

On February 24, 2009, the U.S. Senate confirmed the appointment of Hilda Solis as the Secretary of Labor for the new Administration. The process had taken over a month of hearings and committee debates. Since 2001, Ms. Solis has represented the 32nd Congressional District in California. She graduated from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and earned a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Southern California. A former federal employee, she worked in the Carter White House Office of Hispanic Affairs and was later appointed as a management analyst with the Office of Management and Budget in the Civil Rights Division. She served in the California State Assembly from 1992 to 1994 and in 1994 was the first Latina elected to the California State Senate. She was chair of the California Senate Industrial Relations Committee and authored a record seventeen state laws aimed at combating domestic violence.

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