Secretary Hilda L. Solis has been the U.S. Secretary of Labor since February 24, 2009. She previously served four terms as a United States Congresswoman representing the 32nd congressional district of California and was the first Latina ever elected to the California state Senate.
When Hilda Solis was in high school, her career counselor told her she wasn’t “college material” and that she should become a secretary. Turns out, she did: The U.S. Secretary of Labor. And here’s what she’d go back and tell her ambitious high school self.
