An out Peninsula city councilwoman is running for an open seat on the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors in 2022. Should Laura Parmer-Lohan, serving this year as mayor of San Carlos, be elected then she would become the first out woman to serve on the county board, likely its lone LGBTQ member, and the first mother on it in recent memory.
Parmer-Lohan would also be the first out lesbian elected to a board of supervisors in a Bay Area county outside of San Francisco.
And her election would double the number of out county supervisors in the nine-county Bay Area region should gay San Francisco Supervisor Rafael Mandelman win reelection that fall to his District 8 seat.