Jamal Holtz Sworn In as Interim At-Large D.C. Councilmember, the Council’s Youngest Member at 28
Jamal Holtz was sworn in on the afternoon of November 9 as an interim at-large member of the Council of the District of Columbia, filling the seat left by Robert White, who resigned to run for D.C.’s delegate seat in Congress. Holtz, 28, is a native Washingtonian who grew up in Ward 8, attended high school in Ward 7 and now lives in Ward 6, and has chaired the D.C. Young Democrats for the past four years. He describes himself as the council’s first Gen Z member. His appointment was made by the D.C. Democratic State Committee under its emergency authority and is explicitly interim. The party will form a 13-member special committee drawn from the eight wards to select a longer-serving interim replacement through a more open process. Holtz says he will not run in the special election or seek to stay on, and will step aside once the party completes its selection. The special election is set for April 6. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson administered the oath. The contest for the seat had earlier reached an impasse: at-large Councilmember Christina Henderson had declared her candidacy but withdrew amid a dispute over party-affiliation rules; the Home Rule Charter bars one party from holding more than three of the five at-large seats, and Mendelson, acting on the advice of the council’s lawyers, moved to swear Holtz in.
Source: FOX 5 DC
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