LOS ANGELES—Katy Young Yaroslavsky, a former political aide, is set to represent the Los Angeles City Council’s 5th District after her opponent, Sam Yebri, conceded Nov. 15.
Yaroslavsky will replace termed-out Councilman Paul Koretz.
As of Tuesday morning, Yaroslavsky led Yebri by more than 10,000 votes, garnering over 58 percent of the ballots counted so far from the Nov. 8 election.
In a statement, Yaroslavsky said she was “optimistic that I’ll have the privilege of serving” on the council, noting that she was ahead by a “significant and growing margin.”
Yaroslavsky was a senior policy adviser for L.A. County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, and comes from a family with roots in politics. Her father-in-law, Zev Yaroslavsky, served on the City Council for nearly two decades, and her mother was Kuehl’s district director when Kuehl was in the state Assembly….