Lindsey Horvath is an effective local leader and small business owner who regularly delivers major victories for her constituents in Los Angeles County. She stands out because she knows how to bring people together to get things done: from her early days as a founding member of the local chapter of the National Organization for Women, to spearheading efforts to bring a Metro alignment that serves the District, to her role on the board of the National League of Cities. 

Lindsey is the kind of leader people turn to in a crisis. In 2009, she was appointed to serve as a City Councilmember following the death of a long-serving Councilman. She returned to the Council in 2015, was sworn in as Mayor in April 2015 and again in May 2020. Lindsey led the City’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, cutting red tape to help businesses expand outdoor operations, providing rental relief to prevent homelessness, and activating partnerships with community-based organizations like Project Angel Food to deliver medically-tailored meals to the homes of people affected by life-threatening illnesses. Simultaneously, she created safe spaces for protest and progress in the wake of the murder of George Floyd.

Lindsey is someone who can rise to the challenges of the moment while tackling chronic issues. Her city enacted the strongest minimum wage and worker protections in the country while simultaneously being named the most business-friendly city in Los Angeles County during her time as Mayor. She initiated the city’s Aging in Place strategy, and she used community-based, culturally-appropriate, and locally-trusted solutions to address the homelessness crisis by connecting unhoused people with permanent housing and supportive services.

Lindsey is ready to put her skills to work for people who are struggling in the 3rd District on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.

Current Memberships and Affiliations

• Immediate Past President of the California Contract Cities Association (CCCA) 

• Board Member for CalCities (formerly the League of California Cities)

• Board Member for the National League of Cities (NLC)

• Executive Committee Member and Legislative & Regulatory Chair for Clean Power Alliance of Southern California

• Past President of Women in Municipal Government (WIMG) for the National League of Cities

• West Hollywood City Council Metro Liaison

• Westside Cities Council of Governments Delegate to SCAG Transportation Commission

• Chair, Contract Cities Liability Trust Fund Claims Board & Oversight Committee

• NOW Member

• LA County Ending the HIV Epidemic Committee Member

I’ve lived in the District since 2004. In addition to the leadership roles I currently hold, I have served in the following ways: 

• Former West Hollywood Women’s Advisory Board Member + Chair

• Former West Hollywood Transportation Commissioner + Chair

• Former LAUSD Redistricting Commissioner

• Former LA County Library Commissioner

• Hollywood NOW - Founding President

• California NOW - Former Young Feminist VP

• National Women’s Political Caucus LA Westside - Former President

• Blessed Sacrament Church Parishioner, Lector, and Choir Member

• NOH8 Campaign - Founding Board Member

• Sierra Club - Angeles Chapter Member

• One Billion Rising - VDAY - Former Global Coordinator

• Coalition for Economic Survival Member

• Women’s Reproductive Rights Assistance Project - Former Board Member

I've always been a team mom, whether working for companies like Citibank or The Rouse Company, for my own business, or working as a professional tv, film and voice actor for 30 years. I've worked and volunteered as fundraiser, a writer and storyteller. I solve problems and bring people together. 

I was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and emigrated from the island in the late 70s, graduated from boarding school in South Florida, and from Davidson College with a degree in Psychology in 1986. I came to Southern California in the late 80s to become a working actor, and have done that now for almost thirty years, starting out playing Whitley's cousin on A Different World and continuing to appear in television and movie roles even while marrying my husband and having and raising four children. My IMDB page can be found here.

My husband and I founded a maternity clothing website in 1998. Our foray into the world of the internet and brick-and-mortar retail has lasted two decades, and taught us many lessons about entrepreneurship and the practical effects of government regulation.  I became a citizen of the United States after the turn of the century and keenly appreciate all the wonders of this great nation, especially of California.

I agree with the Founders of this great country, whose intention was for citizens to move from private life to serve briefly in various offices, then to live under the rules they helped create. I am very much an admirer of the US Constitution, and will always err on the side of less government intervention. The Board of Supervisors is a nonpartisan office precisely because there's no partisan way to serve constituents who need pragmatic help--safety, health, and other services.

People who serve in public office need to be held to the highest possible standard of behavior and of ethics.

I grew up in the world of fashion starting as salesperson for a jr dept store where I was promoted to buyer at age 19! This taught me a great entrepreneurial spirit! Managing budgets, profits, and logistics. After leaving retail, I then went Into wholesale selling womens shoes for such notable companies as David Aaron, BCBG Max Azria and Hugo Boss. After meeting my partner in 93 and settling down together in 96 In 2000 i decided the time to end the extensive travel that wholesale sales meant taking me away from family and friends. I joined my partner Todd in his doggie day care business Dogsport and it's been tailwagging ever since. Running for office was never a thought or goal, but after the tragedy of my neighbor being murdered in his home by a homeless man who was mentally ill, seeing the decline of our community and the lack of solutions or urgency by elected officials, I knew I had to act! I had to run so that together we can end the humanitarian crisis that our career politicians have allowed 

I have always thought of myself as liberal and pragmatic, but have been lost in the wilderness of political dogma and corruption from both established parties. I believe in a more limited role of govt, but do believe that it has a duty to regulate Industry lightly to keep our water safe and our air clean! I also believe that our government should be helping families care for least among us! Especially those with mental illness and disabilities, with robust treatment facilities with on and off campus living. I favor lower taxes, but if there is a specific need, I can get behind raising them slightly. Like in measure H, the sad problem and anger people feel is we generously keep saying yes to more taxes but our quality of life keeps deteriorating. We must have a robust safety net, that gives people a hand up.