A transgender woman won election to a seat on Nashville’s city council, becoming the first openly transgender person to be voted into political office in Tennessee.
Olivia Hill, 57, secured one of the four open at-large seats on the metro council of Nashville, a politically liberal city in an overwhelmingly conservative state.
Her triumph made her the first transgender woman to be elected in Tennessee, according to the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund, an advocacy group aiming to get LGBTQ+ people into public office.
Hill was elected on Thursday, winning 12.9% of the vote, NBC News reported.
She was born and raised in Nashville, according to her campaign website, and is a military veteran, having served in the US navy’s engineering division for 10 years. Overall, she has been an engineer for 36 years.
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