Voters in Nashville and surrounding Davidson County made history Thursday as Olivia Hill won an at-large seat on the Metro Council, making her the first openly transgender official elected to public office in the Volunteer State.
The Tennessean reported that Hill secured one of the council’s five at-large seats in Thursday’s runoff election with 12.9 percent of the vote, as of 10 p.m.
Thursday night. She joins a historic number of women elected to the council. All five at-large members will be women, as well as 17 district councilmembers.
That adds up to 22 women — a majority of the 40-member council. “I want to say that I am elated,” Hill told the Tennessean after the historic win.