Imelda Padilla
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Imelda G. Padilla is an American politician who is currently a member of the Los Angeles City Council representing the 6th district since 2023. Elected in the 2023 Los Angeles special election to repl
Official portrait, 2025
Padilla (center) with Karen Bass, Tony Cárdenas, and other officials announcing funds for new bus shelters, 2023.
Kelly Gonez
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Kelly Fitzpatrick-Gonez is a former science teacher and current member and former president of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education. She was elected as a board member in 2017 and
Imelda Padilla
…as a community relations manager. She was a candidate for the Los Angeles Unified School District's Board of Education for the 6th district, losing to Kelly Gonez in the runoff election. Padilla was born in 1987 in Van Nuys and raised in Sun Valley, a first-generation Mexican-American. Her father was a gardener…
Gonez in 2026