{"id":73136,"date":"2025-05-27T15:59:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T22:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=73136"},"modified":"2025-05-27T15:59:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T22:59:39","slug":"hahn-honors-diane-martinez-and-annette-delgadillo-first-sisters-to-serve-as-mayors-of-paramount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=73136","title":{"rendered":"Hahn Honors Diane Martinez and Annette Delgadillo, First Sisters to Serve as Mayors of Paramount"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 align=\"center\"><em>The sisters have a combined 57 years of public service<\/em><\/h4>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\" valign=\"top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"m_3155049008799640650govd_template_image CToWUd a6T aligncenter\" tabindex=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/ci3.googleusercontent.com\/meips\/ADKq_NbeQIisF0Txdn5XVqr5plX22mJce865qxtkaT9-vF-tgTDLbiqQSdQLJm7wlegGZg-qA53sZm54msds9BHosLAKSsOSjgxnrEEXSInnxYyuezEkqcDFSq3_FPujOhgi1K5apIukPJ_2UqE2lnRfqDDhbgTmVh_dDnR6_Y1qdrI0a5OFBQ=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/content.govdelivery.com\/attachments\/fancy_images\/CALACOUNTY\/2025\/05\/11680764\/6213125\/dfa-1254_crop.jpg\" alt=\"Diane and Annette\" width=\"560\" height=\"373\" data-bit=\"iit\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"right\">L to R: Archbishop Jose Gomez, Supervisor Janice Hahn, Annette Delgadillo, Diane Martinez<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Los Angeles, CA<\/strong> \u2013 This morning, Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn honored Diane Martinez and Annette Delgadillo for making history as the first sisters and first educators to have served as mayors of the City of Paramount. Hahn was joined in the presentation by Archbishop Jos\u00e9 Gomez. Martinez and Delgadillo are active members and volunteers at Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic parish in Paramount.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u201cDiane and Annette have been dedicated leaders for the people of Paramount, role models for young women, my partners in public service, and I am proud to call them both my friends,\u201d<strong>\u00a0said Hahn.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cTheir extraordinary story needs to be told, and their service deserves to be honored.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"m_3155049008799640650govd_template_image CToWUd a6T aligncenter\" tabindex=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/ci3.googleusercontent.com\/meips\/ADKq_NbCAbh2CgauueipeqJIxSXM9cN8yQuYhVvN6l3r8pjdGC2bNkNj9wUerAUz8hELmFxKiuPbCUlZ0mrulcfGvjN1i4r0907DoF6JdxIGrUdTIjpYHfh2pH8Gi90YG7kuIaV4k62ksz6XYWchvDcfCZjj4WJdtQ3RWTCaQSVnUaPebcKeehQ=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/content.govdelivery.com\/attachments\/fancy_images\/CALACOUNTY\/2025\/05\/11680779\/6213126\/dja-8672_crop.jpeg\" alt=\"Diane and Annette\" width=\"560\" height=\"400\" data-bit=\"iit\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Martinez served on the Paramount City Council for 25 years from 1994 to 2019, including six terms as mayor. She currently serves on the Paramount Unified School Board and as Vice Chairwoman for the Catholic Association of Latino Leaders. She earned her bachelor\u2019s degree in liberal studies from California State University Long Beach and has a master\u2019s degree in education administration.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Delgadillo was elected to Paramount&#8217;s all-women City Council in 2022 and completed her term as mayor in April. She is Paramount&#8217;s representative in the Southern California Association of Governments Genral Assembly. Delgadillo holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in liberal studies from California State Long Beach and a credential in elementary education.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u201cOn behalf\u00a0of my sister and I, we humbly\u00a0thank Supervisor Janice Hahn and\u00a0the Los Angeles County Board of\u00a0Supervisors for recognizing our\u00a0historical achievement,\u201d\u00a0<strong>said Delgadillo during this morning\u2019s ceremony.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cDiane and I will always remember this moment that we shared together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u201cYour city council is all women, our Board of Supervisors is all women, but still there are girls that grow up and are not sure that a career in politics or education is what they want to do, so you&#8217;re role models, and the more girls we can get into our line of work, the better this world will be,\u201d<strong>\u00a0added Hahn.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sisters have a combined 57&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73138,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73136\/revisions\/73138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}