Women led they way through danger

Women led they way through danger

Alejandra Sotelo Solis was not the first woman to lead her city —that would have been Thelma Hollingsworth—but Sotelo Solis was the first to guide National City through one of its most menacing periods. The same can be said of Mary Salas, former mayor of Chula Vista. Both women had already been ushered into the Hall of History when each became the first Latina elected to be mayor of their respective cities. However their significance is made all…