The Board of Supervisors on Wednesday selected District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman to serve as president after the freshly appointed members were sworn in.

The nomination for Mandelman was put forward first by Supervisor Matt Dorsey, and then by Connie Chan. Both are incumbent supervisors, but they represent opposite ends of the board’s ideological spectrum, with Dorsey generally tacking to the right of Chan, a staunch progressive.

In a historic first, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors now has four LGBTQ community members serving on it.

Rafael Mandelman has obtained his much-coveted position of board president; Myrna Melgar staved off an electoral slugfest by bowing out

Women make up 50.2% of San Mateo County, according to the latest census data.

Paul Canepa and Sonny Dhaliwal were chosen as the new chair and vice chair of the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors as new members were sworn in.