Olivia Hill Made History in Tennessee. Now It’s Time for the Hard Work.
metroweekly.com“When I announced that I was running for public office, I called a lot of other politicians in the Middle Tennessee area, and heard the same thing from everybody,” recalls Olivia Hill, the recently sworn-in Metropolitan Nashville Council Member At-Large, who became the Volunteer State’s first out transgender officeholder. “All those politicians told me, ‘Olivia, on a campaign, you’re going to meet some really, really nice people.
And two, you have no idea how big Davidson County is until you start campaigning the entire county,’ which is 526 square miles,” Hill says. “I’m sitting here in my car that I foolishly bought brand-new in February, and I’ve already got a little over 16,000 miles on it — and it hasn’t left the Nashville area.
Those are all campaign miles.”Hill was ultimately elected to one of the Council’s five at-large seats last month, placing fourth in the runoff election and making history in the process.
The LGBTQ+ Victory Fund hailed her victory as a milestone for the transgender community, which has been targeted by a slew of bills championed by the state’s Republican-led legislature and signed into law by Gov.
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