LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles City Council Sep. 2 appointed Heather Hutt to serve as an interim council member for the 10th District, filling in for the suspended Mark Ridley-Thomas—and giving the South Los Angeles district a voting representative on the body for the first time in over a month.
The appointment came after a week of deliberations in which consideration of her nomination was initially blocked by five council members concerned about the speed of the process.
Hutt will fill the temporary vacancy unless the indicted Ridley-Thomas is acquitted or the charges against him in his federal corruption case are dismissed, or unless the vacancy becomes permanent….