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Alejandra Sotelo-Solis was in fifth grade at Kimball Elementary School when she made the bold assertion. Asked what she wanted to be when she grew up, she said one day she would be the mayor of National City.
“I don’t know if at 11 years old you know (mayors) work on budgets” or “sit on regional boards,” she said.
What she did know, however, is that a mayor is a “head figure.”
Now 39, Sotelo-Solis fulfilled her longtime goal on Tuesday, when she was sworn in as the city’s first Latina mayor. The oath of office Sotelo-Solis recited was led by none other than her former fifth grade teacher.